Luminous Quotes

173 quotes by 135 authors

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as… — Brian Froud
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way.… — Lauren F. Winner
For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom. — Adam Gidwitz
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his… — Ian Fleming
The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions — Gautama Buddha
First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you… — Gautama Buddha
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in… — Paul Feyerabend
A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it… — Johannes Stark
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable — Robert Delaunay
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see… — Stanley Kunitz
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One. — Anandamayi Ma
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make… — Thomas Ligotti
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment. — Susan Piver
A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon… — Ernst Mach
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that… — Michael Hardt
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

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