Astonishing Quote by Henri Bergson

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for something to suddenly appear in the palm…

— Elias Canetti

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

— Ellen McLaughlin

I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

— Criss Jami

Children, viewed from one angle, are philosophy in motion.

— Anthony Lane

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

— Guy Murchie

“More than anything else, the sensation [of flying] is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost…

— Wilbur Wright

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite…

— Olive Schreiner

We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands…

— Anonymous

Flying is done largely with the imagination.

— Wolfgang Langewiesche