Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“All the seeds of Christianity -- of superstition, were sown in my mind and cultivated with great diligence and care. All that… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Here the earth, as if to prove its immensity, empties itself. Gertrude Stein said: 'In the United States there is more space… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my… — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The immensity of the universe didn’t suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe.… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Love is universal. You don't have to tell somebody that loving is better than hating. You don't have to believe in God… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; … It shows us how small… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
