--- title: "1 Human Lifetime Quotes By Neel Burton" description: "1 Human Lifetime quotes by Neel Burton. Plus more from Neel Burton and more Human Lifetime sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/neel-burton-16027_death_it-seems-to-me-that-there-are-three-prin_2552554.jpg" --- > [“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. The problem with modern man is not so much that he situates himself in the future of a human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/it-seems-to-me-that-there-are-three-principal-scales-of-time-the/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76a/neel-burton-16027_death_it-seems-to-me-that-there-are-three-prin_2552554.jpg) ## More by Neel Burton > [“Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/loneliness-is-the-manifestation-of-the-conflict-between-our-desire/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/just-as-prometheus-delivered-stolen-fire-to-man-so-eve-and-the/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“Just as we use speech and gestures to communicate, so we use touch. Words can say, ‘I love you’, but touch can also say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/just-as-we-use-speech-and-gestures-to-communicate-so-we-use-touch/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/depression-the-healthy-suspicion-that-modern-life-has-no-meaning-and/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition, and, unless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/ultimately-loneliness-is-not-the-experience-of-lacking-but-the/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/man-first-creates-the-universe-in-his-image-and-then-turns-round-to/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“Philosophy is a bitter medicine with many fearsome side effects, but if you are able to stomach it, it can cure your soul of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/philosophy-is-a-bitter-medicine-with-many-fearsome-side-effects-but/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“In refining their senses and aesthetic judgement, blind tasters become much more conscious of the richness not only of wine but also of other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/in-refining-their-senses-and-aesthetic-judgement-blind-tasters-become/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/self-deception-is-a-defining-part-of-our-human-nature-by-recognizing/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/wonder-begets-culture-which-begets-yet-more-wonder-and-the-end-of/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/there-are-essentially-three-types-of-people-those-who-love-life-more/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/our-life-is-just-as-long-or-short-as-our-remembering-as-rich-as-our/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/although-selfhood-depends-causally-upon-the-existence-of-the-brain-it/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/i-can-t-believe-i-spent-13-years-at-school-and-never-got-taught/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) > [“If you’ve found something in life that's better than sleeping, you’re already a huge success.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/if-you-ve-found-something-in-life-that-s-better-than-sleeping-you-re/) [Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-lifetime/neel-burton/#itemlist", "name": "1 Human Lifetime Quotes By Neel Burton", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“It seems to me that there are three principal scales of time, the present moment, a human lifetime, and the eternal. 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