To attempt to explain space by time and time by space is to seek to explain the night by darkness and the darkness by the night; it is to revolve hopelessly in the circle of the unknowable.


Translated by Bernard Miall, The Life of Space, The Fourth Dimension, XXIX (pp. 96-97)

Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes

To attempt to explain space by time and time by space is to seek to explain the night by darkness and the darkness by the night; it is to revolve...

To attempt to explain space by time and time by space is to seek to explain the night by darkness and the darkness by the night; it is to revolve...

To attempt to explain space by time and time by space is to seek to explain the night by darkness and the darkness by the night; it is to revolve...

To attempt to explain space by time and time by space is to seek to explain the night by darkness and the darkness by the night; it is to revolve...