"Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time"

In this quote, Martin Heidegger recommends that time can not be defined as a physical item or entity, however rather is consistent and changeless even as occasions and beings within time change. He argues that time is not a short-term construct like the things that exist within it, but rather something that endures beyond any specific minute.