“If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.” IfsWritingWellsSelfRealityAbleUniverseObjectivesObservationDescriptionObservingBoundless Author:Gao Xingjian
“Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.” NeedsHumansSoulFactsSpiritCertainUniverseEmotionGreaterExpressionDespairFindingsProfoundBoredomSublimeHuman SpiritBoundlessHuman Emotions Author:Giacomo Leopardi
“I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.” WorldEarthUniverseSpeakHeavenSeaThis WorldBoundless Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the most familiar, to the one who loves him as well as to himself.... The person one loves is as ungraspable as the universe, as God's infinite space, he is boundless, full of possibilities, full of secrets.” KnowsLoveFeelsWellsPersonsUniverseSpaceLove IsSecretPossibilityTransformationInfiniteFamiliarIntimateTransformedOne LoveBoundlessInfinite Space Book:Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays Source: Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays
“The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.” WorldBelieveLittlesUniversePrinciplesBallsPrejudiceJewAwfulConfessionCreedsNewtonSpitBoundlessBlasphemyTaintedPresbyterians Book:The Portable John Adams Source: The Portable John Adams