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“There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them.”

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Author:Albert Camus

“Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.”

Long Sometimes Stars Fame Obscure Long Life

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”

Soul Shows Night Stars Obscure Obscurity

Book:Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams

Source: Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams