We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share;… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of… — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many… — Jules Massenet Copy Share Image
In that instant when I had seen... the Star Maker, I had glimpsed, in the very eye of that splendor, strange vistas… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it.… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Chanting is a significant and mysterious practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting opens… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
“It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible,… — Gustav Kafka Copy Share Image
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God.… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
