Dimensions Quotes - Page 5

• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?

  Gerald R. Ford

  Beautiful, Determination, Inspiration

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• The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

  Alain de Botton

  Order, Ideas, Language

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• The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured.

  Charles Osgood

  Radio, Treasured

  Charles Osgood (2000). “See You on the Radio”

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• The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

  Tim O'Brien

  Stuff, Bad Stuff, Happenings

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

  Joseph Campbell

  Future, Past, Power Of Now

  Joseph Campbell (2009). “Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation: Easyread Large Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Couple, Team

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

  Brian Eno

  Political, Way

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• Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.

  Wayne Dyer

  Death, Fear, Dying

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.57, Hay House, Inc

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• Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.

  Martin Amis

  Time, Humans

  Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

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• ...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Timelessness

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Rebel, Tasks

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• If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

  Ray Dalio

  Eye, Black And White, Two

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Men, World

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

  Uri Geller

  Dream, Travel, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  Oskar Kokoschka

  Expression, Fundamentals, Poetic

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• Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Taste, Appearance, Whole

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.15

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• I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Thinking, Issues, Constitution

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• String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

  Brian Greene

  Space, Would Be, Bread

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• Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Inspiration, Light

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• What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

  Elia Suleiman

  Reality, Order, Cinema

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Grief, Our World

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