Metrodorus of Chios famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow.
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None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.
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It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.
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A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.
-- Metrodorus of Chios
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.
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Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
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A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
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