Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.
I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity. . . like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.
Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.
That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space. . . it is also within you.
I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U. S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene. . .
She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.
