Quotes by Vastness You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell. Anthony de Mello vastness cells men I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things. Bertrand Russell vastness essentials hate There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing. Bertrand Russell darkness-within vastness splendor This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always. Byron Katie vastness paradise spiritual The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. Carl Sagan vastness prejudice science She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. Carl Sagan small-creatures vastness messages Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred. Carl Sagan vastness deception self We are one species. We are starstuff. Carl Sagan vastness species universe It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness. Carl Sagan vastness creatures consciousness The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Carl Sagan vastness cosmos earth In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. Carl Sagan vastness cosmos civilization Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. Carl Sagan vastness dream television A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of what it is to be human. Carolyn See vastness novelists heart It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone. Charles Bolden vastness stand-alone limitless Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night. Cheryl Strayed vastness dark night What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths. Christiaan Huygens vastness earth sun [Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral. Coleman Barks vastness true-identity trying Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that Daniel Webster vastness faith heart I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . . Dave Barry vastness scene sex What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. David Eagleman vastness teach ignorance 123»
