Awe Quotes

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...

Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility ...

For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...

I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must b...

What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratit...

These aren't still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of ...

I think of two landscapes- one outside the self, the other within. The external landscape is the one...

A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen expose...

Occasionally we glimpse the South Rim, four or five thousand feet above. From the rims the canyon se...

I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus w...

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than w...

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those ...

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are n...

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely ...

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadil...

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years ...

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he l...

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBurst...

Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed...

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to ...

The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the finger...

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made...

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was a bridegroom, tak...

I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of th...

Congratulations, he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mix of...

There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go...

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ...

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the h...

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poe...

Cinders patter, falling with the snow. We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of...