#wonder

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship... ↗

— John Geddes

#fascination #love #mystery #wonder #worship

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#concert #done #experience #job #our

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#civilians #combat #get #healthy #healthy way

Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#wonders #age

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#bees #going #me #old thing #simple

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#language #understanding #wonder #world #beauty

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night. ↗

— Anne Rice

#wonder #beauty

History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable. ↗

— D.B.C. Pierre

#beauty

A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and kept looking up at them, but made no comment until her father asked what she was thinking. She replied, "If the bottom side of heaven is so beautiful, how wonderful the other side must be ↗

— Francis Gay

#heaven #life #wonderful #beauty