Vastness Quotes - Page 2

• Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Dark, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Space, Joy

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

  Anthony de Mello

  Men, Cells, Proud

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• We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

  Jaron Lanier

  Beautiful, Track, Joy

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• Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Hands, Space, Brain

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• I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Crazy, Meditation, Listening

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• Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Lust, Survival

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

  Carl Sagan

  Cosmos, Earth, Across The Universe

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Space, Trying

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• What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.

  Alexey Leonov

  Stars, Moving, Heart

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• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Self, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

  Carl Sagan

  Humility, Thinking, Compassion

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

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• Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed.

  Zhuangzi

  Views, Simplicity, Mind

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.94, Columbia University Press

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• I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Self, Looks

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• I began to learn about the universe myself and take it seriously. I know the names of the stars. I know how near or far the heavenly bodies are from our own planet. I know our own place in the universe. I can feel the vastness of it inside myself. I began to realize with each passing fact what a wonderful and awesome place the universe is, and that helped me in comics because I was looking for the awesome.

  Jack Kirby

  Stars, Names, Body

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wish, Wonder, Craftsman

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Humble, Heaven, Feels

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

  Jeb Bush

  Stars, Night, Space

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• Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.

  Helene Cixous

  Solitude, Void, Birth

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• When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is too wonderful to be called an "illusion" unless we whisper the word in amazement, as we might when witnessing the most astonishing magic trick. What could be more magnificent than this glorious universe, in all its multifarious extravagance? Its awesome vastness and delicate detail. Its impersonal precision and intimate intensity. Its harsh necessities and lush sensuality. This dream of life is truly marvelous.

  Timothy Freke

  Dream, Mean, Gnosis

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• In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Bad Day

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• She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  Carl Sagan

  Messages, Small Creatures, Bearable

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Eight, Years, Two

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.

  Suzanne Segal

  Who I Am, Substance, Answers

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• It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.

  Marion Irvine

  Motivational, Running, Beach

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