J. M. E. McTaggart Professions : Metaphysician Born : September 3, 1866 Died : January 18, 1925 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by J. M. E. McTaggart There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice. J. M. E. McTaggart single-life unbroken vices ....religion may be best be described as an emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large. J. M. E. McTaggart harmony emotion may Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep. J. M. E. McTaggart progress sleep death Similar Authors Peter Wessel Zapffe metaphysician Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet metaphysician All Authors