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Letter "A" » awe
«The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.»
«No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky»
«Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Mind
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Above the Law, awe, heavens, increasing
«I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
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«I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God
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«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Curiosity
| Keywords:
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«The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.»
Author: Napoleon Hill
| Keywords:
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«Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
awe, forest, gorge, gorged, organic, thrill, twilight
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