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“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.”

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”

Way Giving Doe Age Death Time Destiny Dying Absolutes Aging Old Age Preserves Dimensions Parody

Book:The Coming of Age

Source: The Coming of Age

“A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.”

People World Time Movement Absolutes Time Management Looking Back Unpredictable Consolation Predictable Doubted Skip Geneva

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.”

Feelings Time Individual Nations Depends Absolutes Rate Duration Thoughts And Feelings

Book:A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe

Source: A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe

“Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.”

Time Space Principles Theory Absolutes Abandonment Relativity

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I just have this absolute belief that humans are moving away from cruelty and destruction towards a time when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When we understand that there is a spiritual power around us from which we can draw strength. That is where I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us. I just hope we have time.”

Believe Humans God Spiritual Moving Time Spirituality Belief I Believe Nature Destiny Strength Draws Destruction Absolutes Harmony Cruelty Spiritual Power Moving Away

Author:Jane Goodall

“Eternity is the Absolute present.”

Life Inspirational Time Eternity Absolutes

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.”

Years Mean Science Used Time Names Hours Common Example Months Flow Absolutes Mathematical Relative Sensible Precise Measurement Duration

Book:Newton: Philosophical Writings

Source: Newton: Philosophical Writings

“There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.”

Self Time Space Objects Sorrow Absolutes Infinite Finitude

Author:Adi Shankara

“Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.”

Art Moments Form Time Break Madness Absolutes Works Of Art Abolition

Book:Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason