“If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.. ...(they) express something real and existing in ourselves.” IfsIdeasRealUsedFallKnownEternalMythPsychologicalSymbolsTitlesRecallsAntiquityFall BackSomething Real Book:Mark Rothko Source: Mark Rothko
“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!” IfsWellsEnoughCarePastUsedWorryStreetsBearsCreaturesEternalRageAnxiousPerpetualLocksWickednessMaliceWhat Is The Meaning Book:The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition Source: The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition
“One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.” IfsWayEndsUsedChanceObjectsEternalEveningMy WayBoresCoatsRemindingLurkingHallways Book:Mortality Source: Mortality
“When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.” GivingUsedRealizingLaughingAnxietyEternalAnxiety Attacks Author:Stephen Baxter
“The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: "Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."” MenWellsHappensUsedWishSubjectsHe ManEternalLateDiedTablesDinnerBlissWish YouDinner TableOh WellI Wish You Would Author:Bertrand Russell
“I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.” BelieveChildrenUsedHellTeacherEternalAbusePriestsChild AbuseExaggeration Author:Richard Dawkins
“Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.” WayFirstsChildrenReasonUsedSpiritCrazyDespairEternalAidsCurseBitternessProfessorsHeroismWrong WaySpatsGryffindorMcgonagallProfessor Mcgonagall Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.” ProblemBigsUsedUniverseModernPositionObjectsComfortableEternalEvidenceClaimsAtheistUsed To BeMaintainingBangs Author:William Lane Craig