J. M. E. McTaggart Quotes
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....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large.
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There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.
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Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.
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J. M. E. McTaggart
- Born: September 3, 1866
- Died: January 18, 1925
- Occupation: Metaphysician
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