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• There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Meditation, Want

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• That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

  Horace

  Greatness, Men, Capacity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 340-42, Epistles, II. 1. 13, 1922.

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• Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

  Charles Dickens

  Sadness, Faces, Prophecy

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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Woe, Hours

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• White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.

  Richard Grossinger

  Emotional, Light, Yellow

  Richard Grossinger (2011). “The Bardo of Waking Life”, p.87, North Atlantic Books

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• The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Prayer, Home, Journey

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• To Whom does our God say, 'in our image' (Gen. 1:26), to whom if it is not to Him who is 'the brightness of His glory and the express image of His Person' (Heb. 1:3), 'the image of the invisible God' (Col. 1:15)? It is then to His living image, to Him Who has said 'I and My Father are one' (Jn. 10:30), 'He who has seen Me has seen the Father' (Jn. 14:9), that God says, 'Let us make man in our image'.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Men

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• Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.

  Josef von Sternberg

  Drama, Adventure, Journey

  Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”

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• Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure; we need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us, in all its brightness, the pure and right way.

  Martin Luther

  Needs, May, Want

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.9

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• Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil, you must just sit through it and let go of everything. Attain fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow altogether forgotten. Drop off your own skin, and the sense-dusts will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the brightness.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Letting Go, Eye, Light

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• As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

  Thales

  Labor, Idleness

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• The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Light, Landscape

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• A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Heart, Light

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1848). “Sermons”, p.116

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• The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.

  Paul Goodman

  Children, Long Ago, Profound

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 85), 1956.

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• Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Next

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• Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Scary, Darkness, Eternal

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• Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, People, Shining

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• Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

  Michel Foucault

  Daylight, Reason, Relation

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.102, Psychology Press

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• Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.

  David Paul

  Hero, Men, Light

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• Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Darkness, Earth, Might

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• Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Men, Yellow

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• Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Darkness, Substance

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Toil, Crowns, Thorns

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lonely, Stars, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1849, Delphi Classics

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• Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Character, Color, Quality

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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