Light Quotes - Page 269

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have mentioned on some occasions that 'Richter is all about light', and that 'the paintings have a special light', and I never knew what they were talking about. I was never interested in light. Light is there and you turn it on or you turn it off, with sun or without sun. I don't know what the 'problematic of light' is. I take it as a metaphor for a different quality, which is similarly difficult to describe. Good.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check thy force, Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course; And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain; Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come, And breathe around her melancholy gloom: To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine, And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.