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abysses
«Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shall land, but rather on the belief that we ~shall~ land.»
«Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.»
Author: Faith Baldwin
| Keywords:
abysses, deserts, geographical, oases, oasis, plateau, plateaus, reaping, seasons, seeming, sowing, the Endless
«Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.»
«It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
abyss, abysses, recover, recovering, recovers, stumble, The Abyss, treasure, treasures
«The non-existent was not; the existent was not at that time. The atmosphere was not nor the heavens which are beyond. What was concealed? Where? In whose protection? Was it water? An unfathomable abyss?»
Author: Rig Veda
| Keywords:
abyss, abysses, atmosphere, concealed, existent, heavens, non, protection, protections, unfathomable
«Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
abysses, humbly, notion, preconceived, preconceived notion, sit down
«If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
abyss, abysses, back, gaze, gazed, gazes, into, Into You, long, The Abyss, with longing
«He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.»
«All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
abysses, disguising, fellowship, Fellowship of, mart, marts, pittance, The Deep, The Fellowship of, unsparing, venal, Very light
