#vastness

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#bearable #creatures #only #small #such

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. ↗

— Emily Carr

#fact #mood #something #spirit #stands

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#does #knowledge #our #perception #sufficient

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#business #computer #computer science #intellectual #joy

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. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#craftsman #finished #great #kept #love

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#look #only #spots #stars #take

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#against #ancestors #because #becomes #boots

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#astronauts #because #become #earth #go

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#merry #mountains #vastness #love

The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anything he had imagined. It changed its color and shape and expression according to time and place and weather. It aroused a deep sadness in his heart, and at the same time it brought his heart peace and comfort. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life-changing #moody #moving #ocean #vastness