Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“...the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material…

— Paulo Coelho

“My Lord, you own wisdom has taught me to aspire to One even more great, more beautiful, and more closely approximate to perfection than…

— Edwin A. Abbott

“The earth is not just for the clever and the strong.”

— Shūsaku Endō

“It is therefore impossible that reason not previously instructed should imagine anything other than that the Earth is a kind of vast house with…

— Carl Sagan

“To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of…

— Ian McEwan

“Look not too long in the face of the fire O man!...believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly.…

— Herman Melville

What I ask of [the writer] is not to ignore the reality and the fundamental problems that exist. The world's hunger, the atomic threat,…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Mankind is focused on earth; he is mostly interested in stupid things like wars or ideological absurdities. What he has to do is to…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Whatever god he adores, or even if he rejects all the gods, the man who desires to create cannot express himself if he does…

— Elie Faure