"The distance we feel from our actions is proportionate to our ignorance of them; our ignorance, in turn, is largely a measure of the length of the chain of intermediaries between ourselves and our acts."

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Source : John Lachs (2014). “Freedom and Limits”, p.163, Oxford University Press

John Lachs

#Distance Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Our Actions Quotes

“A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.”
“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earthâ€”all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.”

Source : "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.
“It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.”
“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
“When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is making Himself known to you and coming to you with His gentleness.”
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.”
“Time stoops to no man's lure.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192
“Maybe if we can find time to hug and cherish our families and the people around us, child suicide or college suicide wouldn't be rampant.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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