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.

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

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

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

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

There really is no such thing as race.

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

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.