“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.”

1930s, From the film Triumph of the Will (1935)

Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 4
Context: The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.

August 1909, Popular Science Monthly Volume 75, Article:"The Varificational Factor in Handwriting", p. 156

Source: The Life and Wisdom of Confucius

2015, Bloody Sunday Speech (March 2015)

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 16

Summations, Chapter 50