Quotes by Light Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night. Haruki Murakami lightnightthinking Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land. Henry Van Dyke foglighteye We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so much a single effort to render this transition understandable Herman Bavinck effortlightfall I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come. Helen Keller lighteyenight Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light. Frederick Lenz philosophicallightdream He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart. Henry James lightliteraturemind Dialectical thought understands the critical tension between "is" and "ought" first as an ontological condition, pertaining to the structure of Being itself. However, the recognition of this state of Being its theory intends from the beginning a concrete practice. Seen in the light of a truth which appears in them falsified or denied, the given facts themselves appear false and negative. Herbert Marcuse lightpracticenegative In advanced meditation you become light. You transcend self, ego, time, space, and dimensionality. Frederick Lenz spacelightself In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow walllightnight How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left. Henry Van Dyke lightlifedeath The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. Herbert Spencer poetrylightwhite So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting. Henri Nouwen lightknowingclouds Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations. Hermann von Helmholtz blacklightreal It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour. Henry James autumnlightsky You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground. Henry James lightbluemen The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other. Henry David Thoreau lighteyesight Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory. Herbert Marcuse validationfinalslight Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places. Helen Keller greedlightignorance Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false. Friedrich Nietzsche lightmenlying Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller egyptlightsight«159160161162163164165166167168169»
