Land of Heart’s Desire, where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, but joy is wisdom.
In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.[Seule, dans le monde d’aujourd’hui, une philosophie de l’éternité peut justifier la non-violence.]
In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason.
If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?[Wenn ich ewig sein werde, wie werde ich morgen sein?]
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.[Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.]
Eternity! – Didn’t it give you the cold shivers?
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Eternity is a kind of measure. But to be measured belongs not to God. Therefore it does not belong to Him to be eternal.[St. Thomas Aquinas]
Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Death is a commingling of Eternity with Time; in the death of a good man, Eternity is seen looking through Time.
