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“Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.”

Language Dark Silence Roots Profound Height Scream Celestial Transfiguration Archeology

Book:The Cornel West Reader

Source: The Cornel West Reader

“I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll be what you want me to be'. If we could do that, we would be assured of the maximum happiness here and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God hereafter.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally.”

Moral Century Enlightenment Method Aspiration Mechanic Newton Celestial Prestige Recurrence

Book:The Two Cultures

Source: The Two Cultures

“Celestial criteria measures service, not status.”

Criteria Celestial

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their course and to experiment with them. "On earth," said Laplace, "we make phenomena vary by experiments; in the sky, we carefully define all the phenomena presented to us by celestial motion." Certain physicians call medicine a science of observations, because they wrongly think that experimentation is inapplicable to it.”

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

“The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.”

Ifs Would Be Able Religion Discovery Relief Korea North Korea Celestial There Is No God

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.”

Purpose Common Citizens Creatures Celestial

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.”

Ifs Virtue Teaching Realms Subtle Pathways Celestial Radiant

Author:Laozi

“It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.”

Levels Business Majors Jokes Layers Mechanic Celestial Onions

Author:Billy West

“To Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God: Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.”

Needs Mechanic Hypothesis Celestial Highness

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

“I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."”

People Wells Country Death Turns Dying Return Beloved Spheres Celestial Hermes Dying Well

Book:Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

Source: Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892

“Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.”

“Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.”

“Love is the simplest of all earthly things. It needs no grandeur of celestial trust In more than what it is, no holy wings: It stands with honest feet in honest dust, And is the body's blossoming in clear air Of trustfulness and joyance when alone Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair And claim that Paradise which is their own. Amid a universe of sweat and blood, Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate, Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood Of the loud world, in secret ere too late A gentle sacrament may celebrate Before their private altar of the good.”

“Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.”

Thinking Feels Divine Broken Eternal My Friends Empty Wine Lips Cups Evening Yield Flavor Vow Celestial Intoxication Bursting Eternal Love

Book:The Confession of a Child of the Century

Source: The Confession of a Child of the Century

“On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.”

Soul Spirit Desire Religion Spirituality Tree Fields Holy Bird Built Warm My Soul Heavenly Nests Celestial

Author:Hafez

“Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.”

Book Certain Boxes Quotations Commonplace Celestial Anthology Seasoning

Author:Gary Saul Morson

“The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.”

Long Fantasy Planets Theory Familiar Ruins Aliens Logical Mars Vague Filling Invasion Celestial Ecological Telescopes Utopian Crimson Alien Invasion Tabula Rasa

Author:David Grinspoon

“No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.”

Ifs Husband Worthy Kingdoms Servant Celestial

Author:Erastus Snow

“Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.”

Knows Giving God Father Celestial

Book:The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...

Source: The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...

“I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a single, quite simple magnetic force. This physical conception is to be presented through calculation and geometry.”

“The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.”

Years Age Universe Stars Space Cities Darkness Growing Dying Depth Billions Candle Fades Galaxy Celestial Graveyard Memorabilia

Author:Edward Robert Harrison

“How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder as did former men whether stars are jewels hanging from celestial drapery or peepholes in the astral skin of creation!”

Men World Looks Philosophy Stars Wonder Rich Modern Creation Perspective Skins Former Jewels Celestial Modern Science Peepholes

Author:Guy Murchie

“Talk about celestial bodies.”

Body Compliment Celestial Celestial Bodies

Author:Jackson Browne

“The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.”

Source: New Atlantis and The Great Instauration