Quotes About Light

if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.

Thanks to the printing press, the Continent was suddenly populated by people who were experts at manipulating light through slightly convex pieces of glass. These were the hackers of the first optical revolution.

LIGHT SPECTRUM (1665)

Thomas Jefferson explained the power of language with the help of an analogy: "He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."30

No sooner did people step into the light than they were advised that darkness wasn't so bad after all, that they should stop daring to understand so much, that dogmas and formulas deserved another chance, and that human nature's destiny was not progress but decline.

Door aan het licht te brengen dat de wetten die in het universum gelden geen doel hebben, dwingen wetenschappelijke krachten ons verantwoordelijkheid te nemen voor ons eigen welzijn, onze soort en onze planeet.

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies for you see, love like starlight never dies

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

It's the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.

Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you

I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

the mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

Everything which originates from pure love is lit with the radiance of beauty.

White for light. White for love. White for forever.