Space Quotes - Page 8

• The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

  Frank Borman

  Distance, War, Moon

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• We occupy a space of our own creation-a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations.

  Willard Gaylin

  Memories, Design, Perception

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• Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Opportunity, Imagination, Action

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• For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in a stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across the eternal seas of space and time.

  Henry Beston

  Stars, Night, Our World

  "The Outermost House". Book by Henry Beston, www.wired.com. 1928.

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• Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Taken, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.218, Modern Library

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• Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Book, Denial

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.

  Gilbert Highet

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

  Steven Holl

  Water, Darkness, Mind

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• Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Causes, Causation, Effects

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.55, Advaita Ashrama

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• The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Heart, Eye, Vision

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• Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Patterns, Situation

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.68, Souvenir Press

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• Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have at the moment of commemoration.

  Walter Benjamin

  Years, Here I Am, Talking

  "Selected Writings: 1927-1934".

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• The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Mistake, Cat

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought

  Karl Jaspers

  Secret, Quiet, Reason

  Karl Jaspers (1952). “Reason and Anti-reason in Our Time”

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• It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

  Lin Yutang

  Leisure, Rooms, Hours

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (1951). “Complete Works”

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• Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Form, Causation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2301, Manonmani Publishers

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• This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Names, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.570, Manonmani Publishers

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• The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Adventure, Race

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• Writing a poem is making music with words and space.

  Arnold Adoff

  Writing

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• Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

  John Berger

  Giving, Normal, Narrative

  John Berger (2009). “The Shape of a Pocket”, p.176, Vintage

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• We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Self, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool in one's hand, standing before the immense chasm of space and time that is the Grand Canyon, or listening to a scientist who gazed upon the face of the universe's creation and did not blink?

  Michael Shermer

  Spring, Hands, Years

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• It was about finding the sacred within myself, my center, my peaceful core. We each have a sacred space within us, a part of us. This sacred space is a temple, a temple to our inner power, our intuition, and our connection with the divine. Discovery of psychic powers, spells, and meditation are all things that lead us to the temple. They help us find the road within and walk our path to the inner temple.

  Christopher Penczak

  Discovery, Psychics, Meditation

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• "Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."

  Stephen Hawking

  War, Independent, Mind Blowing

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