Dimly Quotes

74 quotes by 66 authors

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest… — Felix Adler
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during… — Annie Besant
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Thomas Carlyle
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but… — Octave Chanute
Flyers have a sense of adventures yet to come, instead of dimly recalling adventures of long ago as the only moments in which they truly… — Richard Bach
In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt. — Huston Smith
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still… — Alan Watts
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… — Bill Bryson
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I… — Aldous Huxley
To make images is a way of ordering one's world, of exploring and understanding one's relationship to existence. ... The images we make are often… — John Blakemore
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision,… — Irving Fisher
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses… — Louis Aragon
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us. — Richard Whately
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic. — Tennessee Williams
Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion. — Umberto Eco
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the… — William Peter Blatty
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. — Bret Easton Ellis
In moments of uncertainty, when you must chose between two paths, allowing yourself to be overcome by either the fear of failure or the dimly… — Adam Braun
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned… — Carl Jung

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