Justus Lipsius Quotes



Best Quotes by Justus Lipsius

“He who does not desire or fear the uncertain day or capricious fate, is equal to the gods above and loftier than mortals.”

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“For these other matters all this mourning is empty and pointless. It is just so with anything that is past: it is not feasible to grasp it again and restore it, and it is not allowed even for the gods to take it in hand.”

On Constancy

“It is as if I were in a ship where I am allowed to walk about the pass along the gangways or among the benches, but this petty movement is not at all significant enough to hinder the ship's course. So it is in this fatal bark that bears us all along: our wills are permitted to run one way or another, not to turn the ship from its course or stop it.”

On Constancy

“Why should God indulge us to the point of ruin, since we are truly children, who lack the knowledge to ask for what is wholesome or cast aside what is harmful?”

On Constancy

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“Time goes forward because energy itself is always moving from an available to an unavailable state. Our consciousness is continually recording the entropy change in the world around us. We watch our friends get old and die. We sit next to a fire and watch it's red-hot embers turn slowly into cold white ashes. We experience the world always changing around us, and that experience is the unfolding of the second law. It is the irreversible process of dissipation of energy in the world.
What does it mean to say, 'The world is running out of time'? Simply this: we experience the passage of time by the succession of one event after another. And every time an event occurs anywhere in this world energy is expended and the overall entropy is increased. To say the world is running out of time then, to say the world is running out of usable energy.”


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