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“Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.”

World Mind Dream Light Joy Understanding Existence This World Pure Essence Philosophical Substance Bliss Dry Ecstasy Transcendental Dullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.”

Light Lying Literature Voice Darkness Example Philosophical Imitation Unseen Antiquity

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.”

Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.”

Light Speak Trouble Stupid Philosophical Adversity Dumb

Author:Seneca the Younger

“When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.”

Life Mind Looks Light Life Is Our Lives Reflection Philosophical Self Reflection Beautiful Life Beauty Of Life Life Is Beautiful

Book:The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.”

Persons Hands Light Fear Danger Philosophical Lighters

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile”

Light Philosophical Seeking

Book:Plays of William Shakespeare

Source: Plays of William Shakespeare

“Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know”

Knows Writing Light Turns Doors Lows Letters Philosophical Chairs

Author:Jann Arden

“And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.”

Knows Soul Light Eye Eternity Philosophical My Soul Unchangeable

Book:The Confessions of St. Augustine

Source: The Confessions of St. Augustine

“When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.”

Made Light Answers Silence Ultimate Philosophical Rings Blinding Light

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“We turn from the light to see.”

Light Turns Philosophical

Author:Don Paterson

“Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.”

Soul Light Form Stars Written Communication Stones Crosses Philosophical Bridges Rays Written Word Spoken Word Tolerable Rays Of Light

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”

Want Inspirational Philosophy Light Philosophical Secure

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.”

Light Happiness Joy Lying Laughter Shadow Philosophical Comic Tragic Light And Shadow

Author:Socrates