Vastness Quotes - Page 5

• Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

  Luther Burbank

  Ignorance, Eye, Light

  Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”

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• The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

  Criss Jami

  Real, Men, Sea

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.2, Criss Jami

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• A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Discovery, Modern Life, Fallen

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• The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Breathing, Silence

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Self, Desire

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• There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.

  Bertrand Russell

  Darkness Within, Splendor, Moments

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.393, Psychology Press

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• In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Ocean, Boards, Ships

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• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Morning, Stars, Autumn

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.362, Macmillan

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• I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Essentials, Way

  Bertrand Russell (1995). “My Philosophical Development”, p.193, Psychology Press

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• To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

  Terry Goodkind

  Goes On, Tiny, Life Is

  Terry Goodkind (2011). “Confessor”, p.583, Macmillan

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• Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Heart, Mean

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

  Susan Hill

  Heart, Race, Sky

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fall, Mean, Darkness

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• Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Night, Shelter

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Twilight, Space

  Rod Serling (1990). “The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories”, TV Books Incorporated

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• Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Dream, Spiritual, Atheist

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• It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Mean, Religion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.393, Ballantine Books

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• Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

  Fabien Cousteau

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

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• To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

  Suzanne Segal

  Eye, Awareness, Self Awareness

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• Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.130, Ignatius Press

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• Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone.

  Albert Einstein

  Doubt, Doe, Earth

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• Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

  Carl Sagan

  Self, Deception, Emotion

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Diversity, Today

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• For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Determination, Self, World

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics

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