Lucifer's Hammer (1985)
“"The contingency is remote." (This is also a Jeeves quote in the PG Wodehouse Novels)”
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"
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“See also: Quotes from Sergio Leone films.”
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(1929–1989) Italian film director, screenwriter and producer
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(1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
(1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 88 - 89 -->
Context: Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe.
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
Frithjof Schuon
(1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, xii, 978-1-936597-41-3]
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