He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there’s some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his...

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything’s old hat. They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything...

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

In the strange dreams of man, there are stories that are unknowingly being built by them. Mine are among the billions that remain untold.

The world was so beautiful, and there was so much of it: he could gaze forever at the wonder of leaves and not see them all: could inhale the wind and not smell all its...

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which...

We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

Have you ever wonder about the misery of sleep?

In my travels I found no answers, only wonders.

The dream knows what they are waiting for, even if they don’t themselves.The end of everything.The moment when it reveals its miracle boy and all the eyes will look and their seeing will be horror...

The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities… If there is poetry in my book about...

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves...

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story “Nightfall,” about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight...

She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,I go on like before, alone in the field.It’s like my head had been lowered,And if I think this, and raise my headAnd the golden...

We manufacture wonder where we can.

In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.[Diary entry, 1971]

If you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don’t remember how we got here. When you get...

Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about 2.0 inches per year relative to the interior of North America.In...

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe’s lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again

God is just a name for our wonder.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes...

…it’s not the medium that’s the message – it’s consciousness – the wonder of being able to wonder …

When you’re in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you’re ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

Someday you will have the same feeling of love and loss at the sametime..Ur hands will be shaking, your mind wondering, your tongue unmoving, and I won’t even look at you!!

Suddenly, I can’t move. I can’t speak. I am set in stone, but it’s a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them...

I sense the joy of young and old,I hear wondrous tales told,Beauty surrounds me as I gaze above,But I am alone for I live without love.

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it...

Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had...

…because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

Footsteps are the wonders of staying alive to move forward

The world’s full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.

mystical” if reality is limited to what can be measured by the intellect and senses) is remarkably consistent in all ages and all places. All phenomena are processes, connections, all is in flux…have the mind...

…we should be remembered for the things we do. The things we do are the most important things of all. They are more important than what we say or what we look like. The things...

O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in’t!

What would it be like if a star exploded nearby?” Our nearest stellar neighbor, as we have seen, is Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. I had imagined that if there were an explosion there we...

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better – does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I have a paper body. You will meet a girl with a softer voice and stronger...

Wonder is involuntary praise.

Could we see things always as we have sometimes seen them—and as one day we must always see them, only far better—should we ever know dullness? Greatly as we might enjoy all forms of art,...

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover....