“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.”
Albert Einstein
“the most moving experience of my life. It was an awe-inspiring moment.”
Carl Wilson
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
“I think he was awed by the realization of a dream, ... I was so awe-struck, myself.”
Kris Kristofferson
“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”
“Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
John Updike
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
William Shakespeare
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