Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 2, The great danger, p. 21
“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”
Source: Ready Player One
“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
“Habit makes all things bearable.”
Quod male fers, adsuesce, feres bene.
Book II, line 647 (tr. James Michie)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Natural Philosophy of Time (1980) as quoted by Suk-Jun Kim, "Time felt and places imagined in my compositions" (2011)
Context: Although the peculiarly fundamental nature of time in relation to ourselves is evident as soon as we reflect that our judgments concerning time and events in time appear themselves to be 'in' time, whereas our judgments concerning space do not appear themselves in any obvious sense to be in space, physicists have been influenced far more profoundly by the fact that space seems to be presented to us all of a piece, whereas time comes to us only bit by bit. The past must be recalled by the dubious aid of memory, the future is hidden from us, and only the present is directly experienced. This striking dissimilarity between space and time has nowhere had a greater influence than in physical science based on the concept of measurement. Free mobility in space leads to the idea of the transportable unit length and the rigid measuring rod. The absence of free mobility in time makes it much more difficult for us to be sure that a process takes the same time whenever it is repeated.
