“The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inev”
Voltaire
“Eternity is really long, especially near the end”
Woody Allen
“Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.”
“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”
C.S. Lewis
“The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance called 'faith.'”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.”
Buddha
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
Albert Einstein
