Sub specie aeternitatis Sentence Examples

sub specie aeternitatis

  • To view things thus is to view them, according to Spinoza's favourite phrase, sub specie aeternitatis.

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  • And thus there is everywhere a striving to contemplate history sub specie aeternitatis and to englobe the successiveness of man in the simultaneity of God.

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  • There is no such thing, we have said, as an individual fact; and the nature of any fact is not fully known unless we know it in all its relations to the system of the universe, or, in Spinoza's phrase, sub specie aeternitatis.

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