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Astonishment Quotes by Eugene Ionesco
- Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
- Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions:…
- Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our…
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- I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra,… — Nadia Boulanger
- Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. — Charles Caleb Colton
- I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living. — Enid Bagnold
- The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to… — Ronald Reagan
- The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,… — Lewis Thomas
- Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not… — Thomas Aquinas
- Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were… — Lewis Thomas
- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza
- What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom
- In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero