Plutarch Quotes

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from which we might gain perspective on our amazing universe and the nature of existence.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

The cosmos is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Time was God's first creation.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, "Man, if that's not a definition of God, I don't know what is.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

Time itself is an element.

There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

There is no separation between being and the manifested world, between the manifested and the unmanifested. But the unmanifested is so much vaster, deeper, and greater than what happens in the manifested.