"Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for,……" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness."
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434 Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke has 434 quotes on this site.
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he…
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and…
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Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
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Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit…
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its…
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I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
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Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you…
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...
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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
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Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a…
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do…
— Marianne Williamson
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Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate…
— James E. Faust
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot…
— Henri Poincare
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot…
— Jules Renard
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
— Seneca the Younger
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The…
— John Steinbeck
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...…
— Roger Bacon
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