Immensity Quotes - Page 5

• Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

  Giordano Bruno

  Eye, Space, Ends

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.

  Don DeLillo

  Children, Night, Thinking

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Stars, Flower

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• To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Clouds, Rocks

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.805, Macmillan

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• The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Reason, Knows

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• Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile. Regard neither unbelief nor doubt. Fear neither sin nor hell. Choose neither life nor death. All these are swallowed up in the immensity of Christ and are triumphed over in His cross.

  John Fletcher

  Jesus, Heaven, Doubt

  John Fletcher (1849). “Letters”, p.229

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• The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Life, Real, Sacrifice

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1997). “Bulletin”

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• A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.

  Augustus William Hare

  Beautiful, Distance, Sight

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

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• Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

  James Dwight Dana

  Vision, Planets, Universe

  James Dwight Dana (1849). “United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N: Geology”, p.615

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• Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.

  Henri Poincare

  Men, Mind, Body

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.473, Modern Library

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• I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Believe, Book, Destiny

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• 'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Imagination, Sublime

  'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 34

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• I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

  Carl Sagan

  Sky, Rejection, Tiny

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.

  Brigham Young

  Issues, May, Spirit

  Brigham Young (1855). “Journal of Discourses”, p.50

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• The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Trying, Timeless, Ends

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• Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Body, Infinity, Consciousness

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• Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

  Michael Faraday

  Believe, Science, Electrical Power

  Michael Faraday (1839). “Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839”, p.249

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• In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  God, Atheist, Men

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• Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hope, Desire, Infinity

  Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

  Giordano Bruno

  Wise, Space, Soul

  "De immenso". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1591.

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• Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.

  Duane Michals

  Garden, Purple, August

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• Even as the finite encloses an infinite series
  And in the unlimited limits appear,
  So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia
  And in the narrowest limits no limit in here.
  What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
  The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!

  Jacob Bernoulli

  Education, Math, Joy

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• The immensity of the universe didn’t suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that greater light, mankind was introduced to glorious vistas we had never before imagined.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Light, Vistas, Changed

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• Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

  Brendan Myers

  Uplifting, Empowering, Magic

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