Eternity Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eternity Soul Spirituality This world Time World
No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or… — Iamblichus Copy Share Image
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter… — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
“Soul doesn’t travel through time, only ideas do, for glorious ideas seek out various vessels through time and inspire the whole world by shaping… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises and looks… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“What is the soul?” a man in the audience asked. “The soul,” I said, “was the one who just answered the question ‘Why are… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...” — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
You and I are both life. There's just the experience of every moment. We like to call them moments. There isn't really such a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You may have some friends that come and go, but having a friend like God will last forever. — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image