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“All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.”

Moments Form Existence Consciousness Gone Sky Ignorance Illusion Manifest Display Flash Momentary

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.”

War Moments Certain Fighting Force Results Fate Objects Battle Various Accomplish Critical Combination Flash Reserves Hostile Critical Moments

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.”

Moments Path Our Lives Flash Investigation Lightning Obscurity Labyrinth Right Moment

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.”

Moments Film Concepts Asking Structure Appearance Revolutionary Flash Electronics Intoxicated Utilizing Polaroids

Author:Edwin Land

“I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.”

Moments Light Seems Individual Forever Evolution Wave Complicated Delicate Flash Organisms Fringe Gleam Sparkling Biological Evolution Wave Of Life

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.”

Way Mean Doe Moments Past Memories Danger Flash

Author:Walter Benjamin

“A woman questions the man who loves exactly as a judge questions a criminal. This being so, a flash of the eye, a mere word, an inflection of the voice or a moment's hesitation suffice to expose the fact, betrayal or crime he is attempting to conceal.”

Men Moments Facts Eye Voice Crime He Man Judging Mere Betrayal Criminals Flash Attempting Hesitation

Author:Honore de Balzac

“We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is.”

Moments Together Darkness Relation Wander This Life Features Companion Flash Lightning Remarks Neighbour Human Relations Life Together

Book:Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology

Source: Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology

“In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.”

Ifs Moments Memories Perfect Sun Shapes Flash Live In The Moment Perfect Moments

Book:Lavender and Old Lace

Source: Lavender and Old Lace