Quotes for: sun

Quotes for: sun

The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments /

The sun is new each day.

What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

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What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité /

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

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You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun
Jacques Prévert /

Education is another sun to those who are educated.
Heraclitus of Ephesus /

Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.
Victor Hugo /

A society is only strong when it opens the truth up to the bright light of the sun.
Émile Zola /

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

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The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

Rembrandt - The Philosopher in Meditation (on Wikipedia)

Truth is the sun of intelligence.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims /

As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
Hildegard of Bingen - Causae et Curae /

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims /

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems /

One light of the Sun, even though it be sundered by walls, by mountains, by a myriad other barriers.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare - Venus and Adonis /

To a Friend of Light
If you want to spare your eyes and your mind,
follow the sun from the shadows behind.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science /

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus /