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It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder Thou shalt not hearken.
It isthe commonwonderof all men, howamong somany millions of faces, there should be none alike.
O lyric love half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which ourdull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive formsthis knowledge, this feeling, isatthe centerof true religiousness.In thissense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
And as the moon rose higher the unessential houses begantomelt awayuntilgradually Ibecameaware ofthe old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyesa fresh, green breast of the new world For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill, For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length, and thund'ring sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.
Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well I did behave.
Soul of the Age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
The most important single thing in publishing is the English sentence, and the editor who cannot contemplate it again and again with a sense of wonder has not yet gained respect for the complexity of learning.
It's a play that after you've been there for a short while, you wonder how long this isgoing to take.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder That such trivial people should muse and thunder In such lovely language.
The sense of wonder that is the sixth sense. And it is the natural religious sense.
Died, has he? Now I wonder what he meant by that.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no useafther a month or two, th' wondher of a woman wears off.
And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do: For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heaven fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, Ulysses With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder-storm; Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle- flags were furled In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
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