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Quotes About Remoter

The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.
~ Edmund Burke
Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told of the presence of consciousness and will.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
For I must confess I had the Londoner's sense of superiority in those days, the half-formed belief that countrymen, and particularly those who inhabited the remoter corners of our island, were more superstitious, more gullible, more slow-witted, unsophisticated and primitive, than we cosmopolitans.
~ Susan Hill
It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own.
~ Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
~ Clarence Day Jr.
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
~ Clarence Day
Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley