Immensity Quotes
101 quotes by 84 authors
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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
— Honore de Balzac
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One thought fills immensity.
— William Blake
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The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.
— Carl Sagan
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Intensity builds immensity
— Kevin Levrone
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?
— Rajneesh
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Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his…
— Jacques Monod
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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that…
— Charles Lapworth
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which…
— Giordano Bruno
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Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn…
— William F. Farley
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When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
— Joseph Conrad
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For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity…
— Virginia Woolf
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Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He…
— H.G. Wells
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of…
— Thomas Malthus
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Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems of…
— Jacques Monod
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Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,
— Carolyn Porco
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Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body,…
— Henri Poincare
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