Light Quotes
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Let us bring the question to the test of experience and fact; and ask ourselves, considering our nature in its entire extent, what light we derive from a sustained and comprehensive view of its component parts, which may enable us to assert with certainty that we do or do not live after death.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
Socrates
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To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
Elias Hicks
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How many times did the sun shine, how many times did the wind howl over the desolate tundras, over the bleak immensity of the Siberian taigas, over the brown deserts where the Earth’s salt shines, over the high peaks capped with silver, over the shivering jungles, over the undulating forests of the tropics! Day after day, through infinite time, the scenery has changed in imperceptible features. Let us smile at the illusion of eternity that appears in these things, and while so many temporary aspects fade away, let us listen to the ancient hymn, the spectacular song of the seas, that has saluted so many chains rising to the light.
Emile Argand
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You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.
Jason Mitchell
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Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.
Peter Landesman
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It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
M. R. DeHaan
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All around us right now, tucked into the valleys and along the coasts, bookshops glow in the winter light. Think of them like singular, magical, and multi-dimensional recipe boxes. They wait for us to pluck out a card, to stand over the stove, to start cooking.
Anthony Doerr
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The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
Conrad Hall
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
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Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates(As curious ladies do, their public cates),This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,The dreadful presence of our empress sings:Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)Till virtue flourish in the light of light.
George Chapman
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Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.
E. M. Forster
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Which was first, is it darkness, is it light? Or Adam, when he existed, on what day was he created? Or under the earth’s surface, what the foundation? He who is a legionary will receive no instruction.
Taliesin
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How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us.
Elena Ferrante
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The progress that's made … in any argument or in any discussion is by confrontation. That's a dialectical fact. People say 'oh let's have less heat and more light,' fatuously. There's only one source of light. It happens to be heat.
Christopher Hitchens
