Eternal Quotes - Page 28

• Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Energy, Delight, Body

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.111, Pearson Education

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• Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Glimpse, Causes

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2003). “The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5”, MIT Press

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• Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

  George Santayana

  Men, Soul, Vision

  'Little Essays' (1920) 'Ideal Immortality'

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• The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

  Dante Alighieri

  Past, Punishment, Lust

  Dante Alighieri (1995). “Dante’s Inferno, The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.49, Indiana University Press

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• Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Design, Peculiar, May

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• To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.

  Laurence Sterne

  Bible, Eye, Two

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• It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.

  Walter Pater

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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• I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God?
  The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hysteria, Seductive, Devil

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• Eternal superiority of the Dandy.
  What is the Dandy?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dandy, Superiority

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

  Theodore Parker

  Stars, Men, Heaven

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• It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Knowledge, Historical

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• Not for no cold did freeze,
  Nor any cloud beguile
  Th'eternal flowering spring

  Torquato Tasso

  Spring, Clouds, Youth

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• Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

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• ... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Pain, Lines, Able

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• One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

  Bertha von Suttner

  Rights, Truth Is, Individual

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• Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

  Thomas Huxley

  Blessed, Science, Voice

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

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• What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Thinking, Soul

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• Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

  Herman Melville

  War, Sharks, Sea

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.438, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Let me say that for comfort, there is no thought more full of sweetness than that of an eternal God engaged in Christ Jesus to His people; to love, and bless, and save them all. One Who has made them the distinguished objects of His discriminating regard from all eternity, it is the eternal God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, People, Comfort

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• The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Destiny, Naked, Littles

  Leonardo Boff (1980). “The Way of the Cross: Way of Justice”

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• To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Destiny, Desire, Quality

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• But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Vitality, Doe

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• All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Use, Nouns, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, North Atlantic Books

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• He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Curiosity, Fit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

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• What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Law, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.360, Penguin

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