Alan Watts Quotes, Wave Of Life Quotes, Light Quotes

I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

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All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

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A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

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But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Science Quotes , Light Quotes

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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God and Nature met in light.

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Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

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Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

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For there is a virtue in truth; it has an almost mystic power. Like radium, it seems to give off forever and ever grains of energy, atoms of light.

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Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

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Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

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Amiability shines by its own light.

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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

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[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

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