“Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.” MenSeemsWonderMankindMoonMassContemporarySeatsUnnecessaryWoeThyselfGrandeurHereditarySaturnDuplicate Book:Moby-Dick: or, The Whale Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
“but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few” MindKindMeanArtEyeFormWaitingSecretWonderRichEvolutionTasteMassArt IsPerfectionTransformationJealousRelativeYearningLockedGalleryTangibleRipeCollectorsTremblingEphemeralGlueCoarseHeathenWelding Author:Laird Barron
“The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone 'ohhs' and 'ahhs' at the glimmering mass and only later wonders what makes them move in that way. I read somewhere-_Harper's_, I'm fairly certain-that the fish are only avoiding pockets of extra cold water.” WaySchoolMovingCertainForcePresidentWaterWonderColdMassFishesInvisibleExtrasPocketsAvoidingCold WaterSchools Of Fish Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.” WorldTurnsCausesWonderWorryFantasyEffectsMassGoldImpactWaveCurrencyMiceConservationElephantsCause And EffectAlchemistWandsFantasy Worlds Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.” WorldWantGivingWritingWonderMassEscapismGreat MusicPotpourri Author:Michael Jackson
“What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.” WorldHumansInterestPowerfulWonderSpecialCenturyDangerousPlanetsIndustryMassLogicPlantRememberedPropagandaPoisonConvinceDelusionHistorianDestroyingWorld HistoryFlawedCoalitionsSpecial InterestsCo2ToxinsUnrelenting Author:Richard Lindzen
“I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?” ThinkingHumansKindI CanWarCan DoWonderDestinyStupidWeaponsMassDestructionWipeWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Malachy McCourt