Best objects & this-world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.”

Ifs World Mind Play Whole Individual Magic Groups Objects This World Tricks Impression Observation Colour Scope Chamber Texture Impressionism

Author:Walter Pater

“I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at origin of the world, and here I am an object among other objects.”

World Soul Objects This World My Soul Anxious Here I Am

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”

World May Dream Happiness Literature Objects This World Caught Pursuit Geese Wild Geese

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.”

People World Objects This World Divine Source Window Primal

Author:Huston Smith

“If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.”

Ifs World Objects This World Expectations Weight Crush

Book:Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.”

World Suffering Space Objects This World Thousand Weak Eternity Difficulty Accustomed

Author:Frances Xavier Cabrini

“So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there.”

World Feels May Littles Matter Moments Seems Interest Chance Novel Study Special Objects This World Pure Wilderness

Book:Travels in Alaska

Source: Travels in Alaska

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