Zitat des Tages über Weite / Vastness:
Wrestling's a form of expression, and it expresses vastness.
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own.
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
