Quotations About / On: LIGHT

  • 41.
    The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
    (Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), British philosopher. Leviathan, pt. 1, ch. 8 (1651).)
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  • 42.
    Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Life Without Principle" (1863), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 476, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 43.
    Its quick silver bell beating, beating
    And down the dark one ruby flare
    Pulsing out red light like an artery,
    (Karl Shapiro (b. 1913), U.S. poet, critic. Auto Wreck (l. 1-3). . . New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 [Karl Shapiro]. (1987) University of Chicago Press.)
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  • 44.
    Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
    (Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873-1954), French author. repr. in Earthly Paradise, pt. 2, "Freedom" (1966). The Pure and the Impure (1933).)
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  • 45.
    She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.
    (Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), U.S. Democratic politician. quoted in New York Times (Nov. 8, 1962). Comment on learning of Eleanor Roosevelt's death. Stevenson was quoting the motto of the Christopher Society, "It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness." According to Brewer's Quotations, ed. Nigel Rees (1994), this in turn is a Chinese proverb.)
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  • 46.
    Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.
    (Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. "Into the Album of Two Adorable Cousins in Villach," Poems (1819).)
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  • 47.
    Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light,
    And precipices show untrodden green;
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. To Homer (l. 9-10). . . The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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  • 48.
    And we, with all our wounds and all our powers,
    Must each await alone at his own height
    Another darkness or another light;
    (Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), U.S. poet. The Man against the Sky (l. 190-192). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 49.
    As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
    (Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ch. 11 (1962).)
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  • 50.
    In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 267, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, "Woman and Child," aphorism 392, "An Element of Love," (1878).)
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