Dimensions Quotes
736 quotes by 502 authors
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Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of…
— Herbert Marcuse
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Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but…
— Stephen Hawking
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He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what…
— Diane Setterfield
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It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.
— Ayn Rand
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She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the…
— Isabel Allende
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There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles…
— Louis L'Amour
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well…
— Isabel Allende
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After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend…
— Karen Armstrong
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Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that…
— N.D. Wilson
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Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.
— Rajneesh
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Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little…
— Samuel Beckett
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It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from…
— Azar Nafisi
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Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the…
— Jacques Ellul
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The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we…
— Vaclav Havel
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal,…
— Alan Lightman
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One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all…
— Hermann Hesse
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