“History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.”
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 57
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“Time is both a mystery and a miracle. A marvel and magic! We live in time and time lives in us.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher
Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 7. (2021)
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930) British politician
"Idealism in International Politics", Rectoral Address at Glasgow University (7 November, 1923).
Quoted in The Times, 8 November 1923, according to "Guarantee of Peace: The League of Nations in British Policy 1914-1925" by Peter J. Yearwood, pg 280
Context: Politically, economically and philosophically the motive of self-interest not only is but must... and ought to be the mainspring of human conduct... For as long a time as the records of history have been preserved human societies passed through a ceaseless process of evolution and adjustment. This process has sometimes been pacific, but more often it has resulted from warlike disturbance. The strength of different nations, measured in terms of arms, varies from century to century. The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords; it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future ages will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race … it is for us who, in our history have proved ourselves a martial … people … to maintain in our own hands the adequate means for our own protection and … to march with heads erect and bright eyes along the road of our imperial destiny.
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)
"Modern Ethics", pp. 268–269
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship
Gottfried de Purucker (1874–1942) Author, Theosophist
The Masters and the Path of Occultism (1939)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
In the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth edition, (1876) Vol. III, "Biology", p. 689.
Also quoted in Joseph Cook (1878), Biology, with Preludes on Current Events, Houghton, Osgood, p. 39
1870s
“The soul has no assignments, neither cooks
Nor referees: it wastes its time.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"A Girl in a Library," lines 32-29
The Seven-League Crutches (1951)
Context: The soul has no assignments, neither cooks
Nor referees: it wastes its time. It wastes its time.
Here in this enclave there are centuries
For you to waste: the short and narrow stream
Of life meanders into a thousand valleys
Of all that was, or might have been, or is to be.
The books, just leafed through, whisper endlessly.
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) American writer
"Conversations in Port Townsend," interview with Tim O'Reilly, 1983. Reprinted in The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction (1987), edited by Tim O'Reilly
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