| For our now, as if running, creates time and sempiternity, whereas the divine now stays not moving, but standing still, and creates eternity. |
| There is a rumor that you can watch fire and water forever, but when it comes to exploding lava fountains, it is sempiternity multiplied to infinity. |
| While in some places at least Plato connected the necessary character of the Forms, including mathematical objects, to eternity, in Aristotle the connection is between necessity and sempiternity. |
| Benedict de Spinoza may have been influenced, even if only indirectly, by Aristotle's doctrine when he used the word aeternitas to signify both necessity and sempiternity. |
| Our present connotes changing time and sempiternity, whereas, God's present, abiding, unmoved, and immovable, connotes eternity. |
| It is just one of those things that have baffled people for sempiternity. |
