Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Prologue p. 10
The Sabbath (1951)
“If time and space, as sages say,
Are things which cannot be,
The sun which does not feel decay
No greater is than we.
So why, Love, should we ever pray
To live a century?
The butterfly that lives a day
Has lived eternity.”
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Are things which cannot be,
The sun which does not feel decay
No greater is than we…" by T.S. Eliot?
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“Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Earliest source located that attributes this to Einstein is the 1975 book The Nature of Scientific Discovery: A Symposium Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus edited by Owen Gingerich, p. 585 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ub3gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22certainly+a+central%22#search_anchor. But long before that, the 1944 book Einstein: An Intimate Study of a Great Man by Dimitri Marianoff and Palma Wayne contains the following quote on p. 62: "But Einstein came along and took space and time out of the realm of stationary things and put them in the realm of relativity—giving the onlooker dominion over time and space, because time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live." It appears from the quote that the authors were giving their own description of Einstein's ideas, not quoting him. <br class="br">Misattributed
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 514.
Context: I cannot speak
In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek
Show I am sad;
But I can speak
Of grace to suffer with submission meek,
Until made glad.
I cannot feel
That all is well, when dark'ning clouds conceal
The shining sun;
But then I know
God lives and loves; and say, since it is so,
"Thy will be done."
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book Four, Chapter VII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four
Edvard Munch (1863–1944) Norwegian painter and printmaker
T 2760 (January 1892); as quoted in Edvard Much – behind the scream, Sue Prideaux; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p. 119
1880 - 1895
