"As technology puts the God-wand into the hands of mankind, new ethical issues never before facing us pose harrowing decisions."

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"My God, my God, who am I attending to? How many am I? Who is me? What is this interval between me and me?"

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature1888–1935

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"Eternity is life that is beyond time but includes within itself all time but without a before or after. And whoever is taken into the Eternal Nothing possesses all in all and has no 'before or after'.…"

— Henry Suso

Literature1295–1366

#time

"I have no Protestant prejudices against Catholicism, and have no Catholic prejudices against Protestantism. I regard all religions either without prejudice or with the same prejudice. They were all, a…"

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Law1833–1899

#religion

"Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, a…"

— Alan Bennett

Literature1934

#writing