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“Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.”

“All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.”

Men May Together Purpose Space Views Race Brother Truth Is Discovery Concerned Eternity Accidents Point Of View Working Together Time And Space Nationality

Book:Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.

Source: Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!”

Men May Life Is Felt Race Gone Generations Huge Bears Ocean Eternity Breaths This Life Proportion Broads Grain Continents Dew Fractions Puff Lapses Proper Time

Book:The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts

Source: The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts

“Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead”

Men Life Two Soul Dies Race Bed Eternity Ancient Meaning Of Life Ireland Rifles Life Means

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”

Source: Works

“Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.”

Men Mind Humans Long Two Soul Dies Race Worst Eternity Dear Karma Graves Human Mind Buried Toil Parting Thrust

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways.”

Way Mind Country Race Opinion Eternal Eternity Infinite Various

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“We get 80 years, maybe at the most 100. Trillions of years in eternity. This life is preparation for the next. This is the warm-up back, this is the dress rehearsal, this is the get ready, this is the first lap around the track before the real race begins because it is in eternity.”

Years Firsts Real Life Is Next Race Ready Eternity Dresses Track Warm This Life Preparation Lap Rehearsal

Author:Rick Warren

“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!”

Humans Dream Universe Heaven Race Hell Loneliness Lonely Empty Eternity Foolish Wander Useless Human Race Homeless There Is No God Grotesque Forlorn Vagrants

Author:Mark Twain

“Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.”

Eye Heaven Poor Race Love You Eternity Lips Bliss Bent Brows

Author:William Shakespeare

“When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.”

Play Seems Christian Lost Race Feet Blessing Eternity Good Things Circles Christian Life Borders March Ashes Thorns Straws Chastisement

Book:Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen

Source: Letters, Now Divided Into Three Parts: The First Containing Those which Were Written from Aberdeen

“How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.”

Mind Humans Enough Universe Race Attention Forever Scene Eternity Intelligent Various Wide Human Race Prospects

Author:Nathanael Emmons

“Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.”

Ifs Way Humans Race Struggle Minutes Eternity Golden Human Race Contempt Life Struggle

Author:Robert A. Heinlein