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Vladimir Jankélévitch

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Biography - Vladimir Jankélévitch:

French philosopher and musicologist.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1985
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

If life is ephemeral, the fact of having lived a life which is ephemeral is an eternal fact.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Si la vie est éphémère, le fait d’avoir vécu une vie éphémère est un fait éternel.

German
Während das Leben vergänglich ist, ist die Tatsache, ein vergängliches Leben gelebt zu haben, ewig.




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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: eternity


Quotes

Quotes about eternity:


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.






It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.





Be humanity evermore our goal.





Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.











Quotes

Vladimir Jankélévitch also said...


We cannot say why. The reason for love is love. The reason for love is that we love.












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