Immensity Quotes - Page 6

• We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

  Sam Harris

  Faith, Science, Men

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.226, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain -- from cosmology to psychology to economics -- has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture. Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music.

  Sam Harris

  Book, Our World, Self

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• I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Country, Morning, Dark

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• There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Loneliness, Soul, Quality

  Theodore Sturgeon, Paul Williams, Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “A Saucer of Loneliness”, p.13, North Atlantic Books

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• To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.

  Umberto Eco

  Reading, Mean, Games

  "Six Walks in the Fictional Woods". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

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• A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Stars, Flower

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Energy, Goes On

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• When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Views, Mountain

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• One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ignorance, Past, Destiny

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

  Carolyn Porco

  Faces, Eternity, Scientist

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• It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity in space, infinity in finite, immutability in change, being in becoming, the all, as it were, in that which is nothing. This mystery cannot be comprehended; it can only be gratefully acknowledged.

  Herman Bavinck

  Space, Infinity, Becoming

  Herman Bavinck, John Bolt, John Vriend (2004). “Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation”, p.49, Baker Academic

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• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

  Ann Druyan

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Tragedy

  "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer Interview, Volume 27.6, www.csicop.org. November / December 2003.

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• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Space, Silence

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

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• Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

  Ann Druyan

  Couple, Long, Joy

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• Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Love, Simple, Simplicity

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