„Tell me, O muse, of travellers far and wide“
— Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
„O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!“
Source: Henry V
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„I invented something called The Oxford Muse.“
— Theodore Zeldin English academic 1933
The Muses were women in mythology. They did not teach or require to be worshipped, but they were a source of inspiration. They taught you how to cultivate your emotions through the different arts in order to reach a higher plane. What is lacking now, I believe, is somewhere you can get that stimulation not information, but stimulation where you can meet just that person, or find just that situation, which will give you the idea of invention, of carrying out some project which interests you, and show how it can become a project of interest to other people.
About The Oxford Muse http://www.oxfordmuse.com/index.htm Foundation in an article at The Gurteen Knowledge Website http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/0/241B42CCD52603DF802569D40049FA6D/
„O tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire;
One morn is in the mighty heaven,
And one in our desire.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
Ode http://www.potw.org/archive/potw369.html, st. 1
1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)
„Not far from the invention of fire… we must rank the invention of doubt.“
— Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist and comparative anatomist 1825 - 1895
Collected Essays vol 6, viii; quoted in T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator (1950) by Cyril Bibby, p. 257
1890s
„The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss and enjoy the agonies of their brethren in eternal fire.“
— Pope Gregory I Pope from 590 to 604 540 - 604
Homily of St. Gregory as quoted in A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Volume 1 by Henry Charles Lea page 241
„Ascend with me above the dust, above the cloud, to the realms of the higher geometry, where the heavens are never clouded“
— Benjamin Peirce American mathematician 1809 - 1880
Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853)
Context: Ascend with me above the dust, above the cloud, to the realms of the higher geometry, where the heavens are never clouded; where there is no impure vapour, and no delusive or imperfect observation, where the new truths are already arisen, while they are yet dimly dawning on the world below; where the earth is a little planet; where the sun has dwindled to a star; where all the stars are lost in the Milky Way to which they belong; where the Milky Way is seen floating through space like any other nebula; where the whole great girdle of nebulae has diminished to an atom and has become as readily and completely submissive to the pen of the geometer, and the slave of his formula, as the single drop, which falls from the clouds, instinct with all the forces of the material world.
„Catholicity seized on man… and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.“
— Juan Donoso Cortés Spanish author, political theorist and diplomat 1809 - 1853
Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism (1879)
„O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!“
— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 385.
„The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.“
— Evelyn Waugh, book Put Out More Flags
Source: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1 : Autumn, § 7
„The infinite Yoga knows no end,
Endless the quest you apprehend.
You'll grow infinite and ascend,
When you are unhoused, O my soul!“
— Kuvempu Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker 1904 - 1994
Aniketana (1964)
„Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.“
— Robert Burns Scottish poet and lyricist 1759 - 1796
First Epistle to J. Lapraik, st. 13 (1786)
„O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!“
— Thomas Campbell British writer 1777 - 1844
Part I, line 359
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
„If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.“
— John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938
Source: Erak's Ransom
„They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.“
— Philip Plait astronomer, skeptic 1964
Source: Death from the Skies! (2008), p. 75-76
Source: Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End...
„And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father — that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for — if you will receive it — when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.“
— Charles Kingsley English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819 - 1875
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.
„Were I as base as is the lowly plain,
And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,
Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain
Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.“
— Joshua Sylvester English poet 1563 - 1618
Poem: Love's Omnipresence http://www.bartleby.com/106/25.html
„And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.“
— Канье Уэст American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977
2 Kings 2:11
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