Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin — H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900

(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained — Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom. — Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and pre — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

$It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transp — Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature$

If I die, don't take this too hard," she counseled them, "death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our b — Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club

Only by intertwining these two perspectives, the biological and the phenomenological, can we gain a fuller understanding — Evan Thompson, Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing. — Frank Herbert, Dune

Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others. — Genereux Philip

Isn't it ironic that being immortal would reveal the fool's errand of immortality?

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