Paul A. Samuelson (1915–2009) American economist
Samuelson's Economics at Fifty: Remarks on the Occasion of the Anniversary of Publication (1998)
1980s–1990s
“Man is an eternal sophomore.”
Opus Posthumous (1955), Adagia
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Steven Pinker book Words and Rules
Source: Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Basic Books, 1999), p. 84
“Children… constitute man's eternity.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 321.
“Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.”
Nélson Rodrigues (1912–1980) Brazilian writer and playwright
Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues.
“The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.”
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 29.
“The stars are far from eternal, but for man they might as well be.”
Larry Niven book Protector
Section 1, Phssthpok, Chapter 1 (p. 7)
Protector (1973)
“Democratic man, dreaming eternally of Utopias, is ever a prey to shibboleths.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Stephen Grellet (1773–1855) American Quaker missionary
On his inspiration, when he was still learning English and walking alone in the fields of Long Island, to take up the reading of No Cross, No Crown by William Penn, after having first set it aside upon realizing it was a religious book. In Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labors of Stephen Grellet (1860), p. 20
Context: I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, "Eternity! Eternity! Eternity!" It reached my very soul — my whole man shook — it brought me like Saul to the ground. The great depravity and sinfulness of my heart were set before me, and the gulf of everlasting destruction to which I was verging. I was made to bitterly cry out, "If there is no God — doubtless there is a hell." I found myself in the midst of it.