Ecclesiastes/theme

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes and/or theme:

“I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all should stand in awe before him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 3:14.

“And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream,
That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its farrow that so solid seem,
Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme ...”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)