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immensity
«When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.»
Author: Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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as it were, establishes, flows, immensity, undertakes
«Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.»
Author: Werner von Braun
| About:
Existence,
Living,
Universe
| Keywords:
billion, billions, enormous, galaxies, galaxy, height, immensity, populate, populated by, populating, presumption, presumptions, the Galaxy
«If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
| About:
Leadership,
Longing,
Motivation
| Keywords:
assign, assigning, assigns, build, collect, collects, drum, drummed, drumming, drum up, endless, immensity, Into the Woods, sea, sea a, ship, shipped, shipping, tasks, the Endless, The Sea, wood
«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
astonished, Before and After, duration, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, frightened, immensity, swallowed
«In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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disdainful, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, immensity, immutability, inscrutable, seaman, seamen, sea change, shores, slightly, surroundings, veiled
«Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
artistic, comprehend, depth, enjoin, enjoins, immensity, knowable, occupy, spiritual world, urges, urging
«For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abstractions, connected, immensity, inseparably, intensity, public figure, ruined, spiritual world, The Spiritual