“You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”
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Arthur Conan Doyle166
Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes
“A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud
Enveloping the earth.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode
St. 4
Dejection: An Ode (1802)
“Emptiness is a conductor
A conductor of heat
A conductor of Anything.”
Becky Stark (1976) American singer
Emptiness Is A Conductor
Artifacts Of The Winged (2003)
“Luminous words, like those drops of light we see in fireworks.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Context: Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body. Shadow is of the nature of darkness. Light is of the nature of a luminous body; one conceals and the other reveals. They are always associated and inseparable from all objects. But shadow is a more powerful agent than light, for it can impede and entirely deprive bodies of their light, while light can never entirely expel shadow from a body, that is from an opaque body.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 42)
Ted Dekker book House
Variant: The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
Source: House