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«In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.»
Author: Alan Turing
(Logician, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
adequate, argued, Copernican, foundations, Galileo, go down, Joshua, psalm, refutation, refutations, texts, The Foundations
«Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!»
«For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, appearances, construction, constructions, escaped, Everything or Nothing, foundations, tearing, Things Fall Apart, veil, vividly
«If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
castles, Castles in The Air, castle in the air, foundations, in the air
«Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
construct, constructing, constructs, deeper, fabric, fabrics, foundation, foundations, higher, humility, loftier, lofty, structure, structured, structuring, vast
«If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? / The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.»
«And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; / The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
amethyst, beryl, chalcedony, emerald, emeralds, fifth, foundations, foundation stone, garnish, garnished, jacinth, jasper, ninth, precious stones, sapphire, sapphires, sardius, sardonyx, tenth, the eleventh, The Foundations, topaz, twelfth
«Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.»
«Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Worry
| Keywords:
air, aired, airing, airs, Air In, air out, building up, build in, built, castles, Castles in The Air, castle in the air, foundations, in the air, now, On the air, put, should, take the air, The Foundations, under, up in the air, where, worry
«If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Reality,
Value
| Keywords:
Back To Reality, foundations, go back, go forward, hinge, hinges, hinge on, rediscover, rediscovered, rediscovering, rediscovers, values
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