Andy M

“Religion seeks permanence in two forms, God and immortality. In God is no variableness neither shadow of turning; the life after death is eternal and unchanging. The cheerfulness of the nineteenth century turned men against these static conceptions, and modern liberal theology believes that there is progress in heaven and evolution in the Godhead. But even in this conception there is something permanent, namely progress itself and its immanent goal. And a dose of disaster is likely to bring men's hopes back to their older superterrestrial forms: if life on earth is despaired of, it is only in heaven that peace can be sought.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

“Here I understand what is meant by glory: the right to love without limits.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom yourself can improve. Men learn while they teach.”
― Seneca

“Our good ship also seemed like a thing of life, its great iron heart beating on through calm and storm, a truly noble spectacle. But think of the hearts of these whales, beating warm against the sea, day and night, through dark and light, on and on for centuries; how the red blood must rush and gurgle in and out, bucketfuls, barrelfuls at a beat!”
― John Muir, Travels in Alaska