light Quotes

“Life —that means for us constantly transforming all that we are into light and flame”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

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“Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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“Paris blacked out. Paris. As if the light of the world were to be blacked out.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

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“Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needs be delightful and rejoicing.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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“the cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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