Vastness Quotes

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.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.

It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

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.

Let the vow of this day keep itself wildly and wholly Spoken and silent, surprise you inside your ears Sleeping and waking, unfold itself inside your eyes Let its fierceness and tenderness hold you Let its vastness be undisguised in all your days.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

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.

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.

That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene . . .

It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

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.

Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.

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.

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.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

We are one species. We are starstuff.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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.

[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

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

To the west, the Pacific Ocean, which revulses me, for its vastness cannot be fitted into any box.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.