Best Grandeur Quotes
236 Grandeur quotes by 196 unique authors
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When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which…
— Michael Faraday
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Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it…
— Rajneesh
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There is a grandeur in this view of life, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful are being evolved
— Charles Darwin
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember…
— James A. Garfield
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It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with…
— James Elroy Flecker
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If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for…
— Sigmund Freud
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If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without…
— Thomas Berry
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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic…
— Georges Bataille
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I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How…
— Charles Lindbergh
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The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be…
— Camille Paglia
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
— Albert Einstein
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Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep…
— Richard Dawkins
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In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.
— Tony Snow
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
— William Hazlitt
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The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass…
— Ansel Adams
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
— Eugene Ionesco
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We are hopeful that you will want to visit our planet in the near future. We are in the process of restoring our environment to…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing…
— Unknown Author
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There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away…
— Unknown Author
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Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty,…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to…
— John McCain
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