„The aim of man is beyond the temporal — in the serene region of the everlasting Present.“

A fragment of Miller's unfinished book on D. H. Lawrence, originally published in the London literary journal Purpose.
Quelle: Tropic of Capricorn (1939) "Creative Death", p. 2

Book I, Ch. 26
Attributed
Variante: The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 274.

Quelle: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 21, p. 79

Here in this region beyond thought the human spirit actively soars
The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

August 22, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Works, VII, 17.
Kontext: The great thing however is, in the show of the temporal and the transient to recognize the substance which is immanent and the eternal which is present. For the work of Reason (which is synonymous with the Idea) when considered in its own actuality, is to simultaneously enter external existence and emerge with an infinite wealth of forms, phenomena and phases — a multiplicity that envelops its essential rational kernel with a motley outer rind with which our ordinary consciousness is earliest at home. It is this rind that the Concept must penetrate before Reason can find its own inward pulse and feel it still beating even in the outward phases. But this infinite variety of circumstances which is formed in this element of externality by the light of the rational essence shining in it — all this infinite material, with its regulatory laws — is not the object of philosophy.... To comprehend what is, is the task of philosophy: and what is is Reason.

Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)
Kontext: To the well-fed it seems cowardly to complain of tight boots, because the well-fed live in a different world-a world where, if your boots are tight, you can change them; their minds are not warped by petty discomfort. But below a certain income the petty crowds the large out of existence; one's preoccupation is not with art or religion, but with bad food, hard beds, drudgery and the sack. Serenity is impossible to a poor man in a cold country and even his active thoughts will go in more or less sterile complaint.

p. 136

Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and Religion (1999)
Kontext: I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality as it is accessible to human reason. Wherever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism. … I cannot accept your opinion concerning science and ethics or the determination of aims. What we call science has the sole purpose of determining what is. The determining of what ought to be is unrelated to it and cannot be accomplished methodically. Science can only arrange ethical propositions logically and furnish the means for the realization of ethical aims, but the determination of aims is beyond its scope. At least that is the way I see it.

Letter to his friend Maurice Solovine (1 January 1951) p. 120

The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant

Quelle: Wisdom of the Heart

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 109
Kontext: Christ is the ideal of what a man should be. He has my ideal portrait, as it were, drawn out in His own thought and feeling. There is an exaltation and a grandeur for myself in the time to come, which Christ knows, and I do not; but I am following after. I am pressing up toward that thought that Christ has of what I am and ought to be; and I am determined that I will apprehend it as Christ Himself does. Not that I have it; but I will strive for it. My manhood is in the future. My life lies beyond the present.

Declining Hillary Clinton's request that India should stop trading with Iran, and describing the need of Iran for India, 9 May, 2012. http://www.iranwatch.org/government/US/DOS/us-dos-remarkssecretaryclinton-and-indianexternalaffairsminister-050812.htm

Foreword of book by [David Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modern Physics, Routledge, 1984, 0415174406, x]

Quelle: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 112

Commerce in the Pacific Ocean (1852)
Kontext: Who does not see, then, that every year hereafter, European commerce, European politics, European thoughts, and European activity, although actually gaining greater force and European connections, although actually becoming more intimate will nevertheless relatively sink in importance; while the Pacific Ocean, its shores, its islands, and the vast regions beyond, will become the chief theatre of events in the World's great Hereafter? Who does not see that this movement must effect our own complete emancipation from what remains of European influence and prejudice, and in turn develop the American opinion and influence which shall remould constitutions, laws, and customs, in the land that is first greeted by the rising sun?

1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)