“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that”
D.H. Lawrence
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
William Shakespeare
“However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion”
Blaise Pascal
“Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”
Walter Benjamin
“There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.”
Camille Paglia
“One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.”
William Rose Benet
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