Space Quotes - Page 14

• The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ideas, Track

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1183, Delphi Classics

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• It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Being There, Great Men

  Notes by Richard Baker, The Chesterton Review, Winter/Spring 1977.

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• I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

  James Van Allen

  Quality, Cost, Exploration

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• Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only difference between a living and a dead body is, that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. When it is extinct or entirely latent, the molecules obey a superior attraction, which draws them asunder and scatters them through space. This dispersion must be death, if it is possible to conceive such a thing as death where the very molecules of the dead body manifest an intense vital energy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Men, Differences, Energy

  H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, p.480, Quest Books

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• Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Distance, May, Disease

  H. P. Blavatsky (1994). “Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)”, p.207, Quest Books

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• The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone.  The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Life, Motivational, Dream

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• Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Diving, Underwater

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• The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

  El Lissitzky

  Unity, Mind, Purpose

  "El Lissitzky: Life, Letters, Texts". Book edited by Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers, 1968.

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• The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Summer, Running, Fashion

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter I, Section 5,

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• I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

  William P. Young

  Letting Go, Jobs, Writing

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• Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Laughter, Flying High, Hands

  "High Flight". Poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., September 3, 1941.

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• Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate.

  Alice Domurat Dreger

  Sex, Romance, Soul

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• We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Sea, Water

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Direct Action, Illusion

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.237, Penguin

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• The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Say Anything, Earth, Ufo

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• The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy... A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there's another kid (killed) and I'm running out of closet space.

  Dave Chappelle

  Running, Kids, Artist

  "Dave Chappelle: ‘The Biggest Enemy of an Artist Is Apathy’" by Greg Cwik, www.vulture.com. July 19, 2015.

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• The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

  Laozi

  Wall, Reality, Doe

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• Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sports, Spring, Book

  "The Last of the Barons". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Page 23), www.theguardian.com. 1877.

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• When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Heart, Men

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• All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

  Henri Bergson

  Army, Animal, Men

  Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.224, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Animal, Brain, Peculiar

  "Economics and Ecology". Book by Kenneth Boulding, p. 225, 1966.

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• The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Distance, Ghetto, Organization

  Kenneth E. Boulding (2017). “Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms”, p.149, Routledge

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• There's nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul
  Like a day on a stream,
  Back on the banks of the old fishing hole
  Where a fellow can dream.
  There's nothing so good for a man as to flee
  From the city and lie
  Full length in the shade of a whispering tree
  And gaze at the sky.
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  It is good for the world that men hunger to go
  To the banks of a stream,
  And weary of sham and of pomp and of show
  They have somewhere to dream.
  For this life would be dreary and sordid and base
  Did they not now and then
  Seek refreshment and calm in God's wide, open space
  And come back to be men.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Lying, Men

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• There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Apples, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Keith Sagar (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Careers, Two, Long

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