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Letter "G" » glimpses
«I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpses and particles of life, seizing on them and holding them and trying to make a pattern of them. In other words, trying to put a world back together again out of its fragmentary moments.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
fragmentary, glimpses, in other words, seizing
«No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
constituted, fragmented, fragments, fruition, glimpses, partial, The Whole Truth, Truth The
«As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
admitted, doubting, glimpse, glimpses, laid, Other side, own right, propaganda, right on, The other side
«Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
despair, drives, eternity, glimpse, glimpsed, glimpses, minute, offering, stretch, stretch out, unbearable
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest»
«In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined»
«Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.»
«Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bliss, devotional, dive, dives, diving, encourages, experiencing, genuinely, glimpse, glimpsed, glimpses, induces, inducing, singing, taste, the self
«Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn»
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