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Quotes About Light

Tot a?a cum galbenul este intotdeauna asociat cu lumina, se poate spune ?i c? albastrul aduce cu el ?i un principiu al întunericului. Aceast? culoare are un efect special ?i aproape indescriptibil asupra ochiului. Pe scara culorilor este una puternic?, îns? de partea negativ?, ?i la maximum de puritate este, cum s-ar zice, o nega?ie stimulatoare. Aspectul s?u este deci un fel de contradic?ie între excita?ie ?i calm.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wär' nicht das Auge sonnenhaft, Wie könnten wir das Licht erblicken? Lebt' nicht in uns des Gottes eigne Kraft, Wie könnt' uns Göttliches entzücken?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Numai soarele are dreptul la petele sale.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.
~ Johanna Spyri
The universalism I aspire to does neither. It holds that the same light shines through all our windows, but that each window is different.
~ John A. Buehrens
The standard definition of God, "God is light," is just a simple way of saying that God is energy. Electromagnetic energy. He is not a He but an It; a field of energy that permeates the entire universe and, perhaps, feeds off the energy generated by its component parts.
~ John A. Keel
The prospect is chilling, on every Side. Gloomy, dark, melancholy, and dispiriting. When and where will the light spring up?
~ John Adams
Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.
~ John Ashbery
Heh? Eh? Our youth is dead. From the minute we discover it with eyes closed Advancing into mountain light. Ouch.
~ John Ashbery
And sudden day unbuttoned her blouse.
~ John Ashbery
May that light and joy and power: Keep my thoughts pure; Keep me gentle and truthful in all I say; Keep me faithful and diligent in my work; Keep me humble in my opinion of myself; Keep me honorable and generous in my dealings with others; Keep me loyal to every cherished memory of the past; Keep me mindful of my eternal destiny as your child.
~ John Baillie
For love is of such potent might That of misfortune it makes light.
~ JOHN BARBOUR
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
~ John Berger
I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are impertinent. More than half the stars in the universe are orphan-stars belonging to no constellation. And they give off more light than all the constellation stars.
~ John Berger
It was sunny, with the special light of an autumn afternoon, when everything casts such dark and long shadows that the earth, and all that was standing on it, looked as if it was slipping towards the sun.
~ John Berger
[M]ovie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.
~ John Boorman
Newton divided the spectrum into seven colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet – the choice of seven to accord with the seven notes of the diatonic music scale and the seven heavenly spheres.
~ John Browne
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
~ John Burroughs
It is no small evil to quench the light   of the Gospel, to lay a snare for consciences, and to remove the   distinction between the Old and New Testaments.
~ John Calvin
In short, their malice is a veil to hinder   them from observing the light of God; their obstinacy renders them   harder than stones, so that they never suffer themselves to be subdued.
~ John Calvin
we should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.
~ John Calvin
All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.
~ John Calvin
Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.
~ John Calvin
The blasphemy of the papists is damnable, when they pretend that the light of Scripture merely dazzles the eye. This
~ John Calvin