Brian Greene Quote

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day? So, O man! because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Voltaire

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

• Dreams

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting ~ a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• God
• Flowers

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress. And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Life
• Age
• Opportunity

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

Saint Augustine

The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of thestreet, and sees the sky and wood, and is a man again. In their eternalcalm, he finds himself. The health of the eye seems to demand ahorizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please.  I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow.  What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.  Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Power
• Thinking

The universe is one of God's thoughts.

Friedrich Schiller

• Thinking

When it is darkest, men see the stars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Man

This dark brightness that falls from the stars.

Pierre Corneille

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

Michelangelo

To have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.

Mircea Eliade

• Life

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Galileo Galilei

• Love
• Fear

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Julius Caesar

• Nature

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

Edgar Cayce

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Mark Twain

• Truth
• Anger

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

• Knowledge
• Mystery