Ferdinand Magellan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church
-- Ferdinand Magellan

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The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.
-- Ferdinand Magellan

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The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
-- Ferdinand Magellan

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If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!
We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult.
I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ's Church to one's own little community. It is everywhere, in all parts of the world; and whatever its external form, frequently changing, often impure, yet the gifts wherever received increase our riches.
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to celibacy, obligated and bound by nothing except the injunction of the Church. Should the same renunciation not be possible if this injunction is replaced by the admonition finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created?
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

Ferdinand Magellan famous quotes

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