FastSaying
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
eternity
future
happiness
life
past
present
religion
time
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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
— Augustine of Hippo
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The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
— C.S. Lewis
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With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Religion / beliefs
Live for now. As it is only in the present that we know the passion of Life as it was meant to be.
— STEVE THOMPSON
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