Eternity and Time

Since the dawn of human consciousness, the question of eternity and time has occupied the minds of humans. The existential tension between the finiteness of human life and the desire for something outlasting this life was combined very early with the cognitive quest into the relationship of the objective world and the perceiving subject and the question whether both are outflows or deliberate creatures of a higher being. The questions asked by the late antique Gnostics: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” have received a powerful pictorial expression in a famous allegorical painting of Paul Gaugin, created in Tahiti.

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