Admiration Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having…

— Lucretius

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent…

— C. S. Lewis

“this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by…

— Lucretius

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a…

— John Lanchester

“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the glad tidings,…

— Victor Hugo

“All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute…

— Janny Wurts

“The shadow of the passions of the moment transversed this grand and gentle spirit occupied with eternal things.”

— Victor Hugo

“It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“But when a belief vanishes, there survives it — more and more ardently, so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost…

— Marcel Proust

“this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one…

— Elspeth Huxley

“Beneath the pseudo-scientific terminology one can in each case recognize a phantasy of which almost every element is to be found in phantasies which…

— Norman Cohn