Sun - Quotes
It`s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity`s highest callings.
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
- What makes the sky change colour when the sun reaches the horizon?
- If we tried to explain everything, we wouldn`t be able to live.
When you`re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you`ve just wandered a few feet off the path, that you`ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and its time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you dont even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.
Oh, gently rocking afternoon, give me peace -
I will lie down too, and work later.
The light of your sun is already hanging on the hedges,
and yonder the evening comes across the hills.
The [...] tragedy of happiness: people adapt to their circumstances, good or bad, the way their eyes adapt to sun or darkness.
My heart is still bathed in the fierce sun of passion,
All spring is in bloom there, by spring breezes tossed,
But look how my hair turns hoary and ashen,
Its raven black touched by the premature frost.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation — every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.