“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”
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Abraham Joshua Heschel 130
Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi 1907–1972Related quotes
“But he is risen, a later star of dawn.”
A Morning Exercise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.”
Source: The Fry Chronicles
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
Context: Where we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted,
We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil was lifted.
By a hand of fire awakened, in a moment caught and led
Upward to the wondrous vision: through the star-mists overhead
Flare and flaunt the monstrous highlands; on the sapphire coast of night
Fall the ghostly froth and fringes of the ocean of the light.
2000s, Before In History (2004)
We'll Never Conquer Space (1960)
Context: We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we are face-to-face with immensity and must accept its grandeur and terror, its inspiring possibilities and its dreadful restraints.
Source: General System Theory (1968), 3. Some System Concepts in Elementary Mathematical Consideration, p. 55 as cited in: Anthony Wilden (2003) System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange. p. 245