Vastness quotes
49 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature."
"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."
"Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred."
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"It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness."
"In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours."
"That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you."
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena."
"Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television."
"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."
"This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always."
"We are one species. We are starstuff."
"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."
"In the middle of an ocean on board a ship, one can get a sense of vastness."
"A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education."
"To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box."
