Quotes by Light The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness. Eckhart Tolle lightdarknesswant Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. Edwin Percy Whipple sunshinehumorlight From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit. Edwin Percy Whipple imperfectionlightevil Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. Edwin Hubbel Chapin nerveslightmen I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice. Edward Snowden nsalightjustice The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. Edwin Percy Whipple lightwisemen When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more. Edward Young torcheslightmen An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Edwin Percy Whipple shininglightreason An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light. E.F. Benson lightbrainideas Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises. Egon Friedell lightrealityart Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside. Egon Schiele bodylightbeauty The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core. Egon Friedell lightartistviews A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. Edwin Percy Whipple lighteducationteacher The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation. Edwin Hubbel Chapin tiredlightnight Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment Eckhart Tolle flamespainlight A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God. Edwin Hubbel Chapin lightdarknesswonder The future projects light, the past only clouds Eileen Gray lightcloudspast Can the darkness condemn the light? El Greco lightdarkness What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Eckhart Tolle crystalsrockslight Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light. Edwin Hubbel Chapin purpledistancelight«102103104105106107108109110111112»
