“Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.”
Sentences of Sextus
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Quintus Sextius 14
Roman philosopherRelated quotes
“All that time is lost which might be better employed.”
As quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations in Most Frequent Use: Taken Chiefly from the Latin and French, but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English (1809) by David Evans Macdonnel
1860s, First Inaugural Address (1861)
Session 771, Page 75
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)
The Positivum. Written between 1910 - 1920.
Context: You, faulty men! Not only got lost on the way of charlatains, but contravened against the divine nature. Weren't settled for the wealthy, clear air, you bewitched it with smoke and burnt smell, you weren't settled for the best spring water, you filled up yourself with several kinds of hard drinks, the sun shined for you in vain, you didn't behold it...
“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
Source: Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay