The Time Mechine
Easier, far easier down than up.
And you can't move at all in time, you can't get away from the present moment.
My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting away from the present movement. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are paying asking the time-dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel DOWN if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth surface.
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But the great difficulty is this, interrupted the psychologists. You can move about in all directions of space, but you cannot move about in time.
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That's the green of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we can't move about in time. For instance, if i am recalling an incident very vividly i go back to the instant of its occurrence...I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we no means of starting back for any length of time.
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Any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate good his drift along the time-dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?
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Oh, this, began filby, is all.....
Why not? The time traveller said.
It's against reason, Filby said.
What reason? The time traveller said.
You can show black is white by argument, said Filby, but you will never convince me.