Quotes About Illumination

In the sunet of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.

Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.

Todo lo que ocurra en ese momento a su alrededor estará iluminado por aquella música y se hará hermoso.

Bernard ansiaba ser siempre el que hace las preguntas y no el que tiene que responderlas. La fama le corresponde siempre al que responde, no al que pregunta. La cara del que responde está iluminada por los reflectores, mientras que el que pregunta es filmado desde atrás.

Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return im­plies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature. This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict. For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

La luce rossastra del tramonto illumina ogni cosa con il fascino della nostalgia: anche la ghigliottina

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

I love highlighting. A good highlighter works on everyone.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

I danced with my shadows until they became part of my light.

you will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace.

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There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Through study we welcome the light of God into our minds.

Extraordinary emblems of math's ability to illuminate the dark corners of the cosmos, black holes have become the cynosures of modern physics.

Each moment—each event or happening—exists, just as each point in space exists. Moments don't momentarily come to life when illuminated by the "spotlight" of an observer's present; that image aligns well with our intuition but fails to stand up to logical analysis. Instead, once illuminated, always illuminated. Moments don't change. Moments are. Being illuminated is simply one of the many unchanging features that constitute a moment.

Lead me, guide me to the light of your paper. Keep me in your arc of acuity. And when the ream is spent. Write a poem on my back. I'll never wash it off.

The light extends like truth, the truth like a hand extending at the same time as it recedes. What is that like?

There's a light that can make finding a thing look more than faintly like falling across it—you must kneel, make an offering. I threw my compass away years ago. I have passed through that light. —Carl Phillips, from "That it Might Save, or Drown Them", Wild is the West (?Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 23, 2018)

Assim como as crianças tremem e têm medo de tudo na escuridão cega, também nós, à claridade da luz, às vezes tememos o que não deveria inspirar mais temor do que as coisas que aterrorizam as crianças no escuro... Lucrécio, Sobre a natureza das coisas (cerca de 60 a.C.)

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion. In