#earth

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#duty #earthly #father #happen #highest

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum. ↗

— Claude Nicollier

#away #earth #explore #further #generation

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#earth #failure #forgets #god #his

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#come #earth #felt #going #i

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#change #deal #earth #equipped #exists

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#challenged #earth #human #human being #psychologically

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out. ↗

— Larry Holmes

#could #crisp #deliver #earth #ever

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#good #heavenly #minded #people #some

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#fun #going #how #inherit #keep