"Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!"

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Source : Hippolyte Taine (1876). “The Modern Régime”

Hippolyte Taine

#Space Quotes #Earth Quotes #Spheres Quotes

“If you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.”
“In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”
“Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.”
“I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.”
“Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved,be like that to me!”
“Whateverâ€™s there to feel, feel it â€“ the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence. Get that part done â€“ the sooner the better. The only way around these things is through them.”
“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.”
“The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the Most Great Peace. Its illumination and quickening is love. Its happiness is the attainment of spiritual perfections.”

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