Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
It takes a very long time to become young.
—Pablo Picasso
There is a time for being ahead, a time for being behind; a time for being in motion, a time for being at rest; a time for being
—Laozi
While everything in the Old Testament was in preparation for Christ, everything now stems from him. Christ is the turning point of time. The promise made to Abraham extends now out to all nations.
—Herman Bavinck
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde
Don’t force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
—Plato
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
—Marcus Aurelius
“If God takes away the guilt of sin, he is sure at the same time to remove the power of sin.”
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
—Henry Ford
If you have time to think first before you speak, consider: is what you want to say worth it? Is it necessary? Could it hurt someone? And most of the time, if you think, you won’t speak.
—Leo Tolstoy
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
—Henry David Thoreau
The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things
—Miyamoto Musashi
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
—Stephen Hawking
Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed against our God?
—J. Gresham Machen
It is very proper for us when we have experienced the mercy of God and praise him for that, at the same time to praise him for his other perfections.
—Jonathan Edwards
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
—Immanuel Kant
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
—Carl Jung
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
—Blaise Pascal
My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
—Seneca
“I would earnestly urge all Christian workers to be sure to get some time alone for the prayerful study of the Word. The more of such time that you can get, the better will it be both for yourself and for others.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.
—Immanuel Kant
I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Such should be the outward biography of a man in time, a putting off of dead circumstance day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Christ died, but he is not dead now. He is risen; he has gone up into his glory; he sits upon the throne of God; but, at the same time, by a very real spiritual presence he is with all his people, as he said to his disciples[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
—Mark Twain
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
—Socrates
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