Quotes About Expansion

What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant, §

Powodem, dla którego kiepscy poeci stajÄ… siÄ™ jeszcze gorsi, jest to, ?e czytujÄ… wyÅ'Ä…cznie innych poetów (tak jak marni filozofowie czytajÄ… tylko filozofów), podczas gdy o wiele wiÄ™kszy po?ytek wyciÄ…gnÄ™liby z jakieÅ› ksi??ki o botanice czy geologii. Wzbogacamy siÄ™ jedynie, obcujÄ…c z dyscyplinami odlegÅ'ymi od wÅ'asnej. Tyczy siÄ™ to zresztÄ…, co oczywiste, tylko dziedzin w których panoszy siÄ™ Ja.

We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own.

Since there can only be a limited number of ways to face the ultimate problems, the mind is limited in its expansion by that natural boundary which is the essential, by that impossibility of indefinitely multiplying the capital difficulties: history is solely concerned with changing the aspect of a sum of questions and solutions.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Civilization is come. It has shut up a million of men within an area of four square leagues; it has stalled them in streets, houses, apartments, rooms, and chambers eight feet square; after a time it will make them shut up one upon another like the tubes of a telescope.

Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.

Tutto sommato trovo stimolanti le emozioni che si provano quando si viene a contatto con modi di pensare diversi dai nostri, ho l'impressione che le mie vedute si amplino.

And then, suddenly, time was flowing differently than usual. It didn't turn back, or even pause. Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal.

Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness.

I don't think any novelist is happy being just a novelist. I'm sure you know this. We should be poets. We should be composers and we should be making language do things that the novel won't allow you to do. This is what I've been trying to do for a long time.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

A writer once commented that after he was left alone for long periods of time he felt larger than before

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

You are all pulling light, which is data and information, onto the planet, and as you do this you create new pathways for consciousness to explore without even saying a word.

It has been our intention to expand your ideas of who your gods are because those gods will be returning to Earth. That is why the planet is going through such great turmoil. As you learn to hold the frequencies coming from the creative cosmic rays, you will be prepared to meet these gods.

As in older and later empires, resources were not equal to the overextension of the imperial reach.

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like filling your house with more and more beautiful wicker baskets. It's supposed to be cumulative.

It is like the expanding universe. The more our instruments penetrate it, the further the limits recede. We therefore have to assume that this expansion, this retreat, is directly proportional to the power of our instruments.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

Five years ago, we came to the realization that the camera can be used for more than capturing memories. We showed it can be used for talking. The dream for us is expanding the camera and what it can do for your life. It has capabilities beyond making memories.

I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

I didn't want to direct any more theatre because I wanted to try something different, to move into another realm.