| 22918 | What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]? [Parmenides] |
| 312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato] |
| 1526 | Almost everyone except Plato thinks that time could not have been generated [Plato, by Aristotle] |
| 617 | It is hard to see how either time or movement could come into existence or be destroyed [Aristotle] |
| 22925 | The present is the past/future boundary, so the first moment of time was not present [Le Poidevin] |