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William Blake2 quotes
Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour — William Blake · 1803Alexander Pope1 quote
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul. — Alexander Pope · 1733Alfred Tennyson1 quote
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Dogen1 quote
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen · 1253Edward N. Lorenz1 quote
Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? — Edward N. Lorenz · 1979Heraclitus1 quote
A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus · 475 BCHermann Hesse1 quote
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. — Hermann Hesse · 1919Hushpuppy1 quote
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted. — Hushpuppy · 2012James Jeans1 quote
If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar, has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take. — James Jeans · 1940John Muir1 quote
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir · 1869John Williams1 quote
It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960Joshua Reynolds1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Marcus Aurelius1 quote
One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Mother Teresa1 quote
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. — Mother Teresa · 1975Mufasa1 quote
When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Life. — Mufasa · 1994Norman Maclean1 quote
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. — Norman Maclean · 1976Obi-Wan Kenobi1 quote
The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977Percy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine? — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1819Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1836Voltaire1 quote
All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; for, after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunégonde, if you hadn’t been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn’t traveled across America on foot, if you hadn’t given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn’t lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn’t be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. — Voltaire · 1759Wendell Berry1 quote
The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry · 1977William Shakespeare1 quote
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. — William Shakespeare · 1616Zhuang Zhou1 quote
The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BC