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Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!
Willa Cather1873–1947Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Book VII, Ch. 4
- Nature
There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
Willa Cather1873–1947My Ántonia (1918), Book I: The Shimerdas, Chapter IIn context
- Nature
The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959“Great Thought” (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
- Art
I would suggest that the whole imposing edifice of modern medicine, for all its breathtaking successes is, like the celebrated Tower of Pisa, slightly off balance.
Charles IIIborn 1948Speech to the British Medical Association, as cited in “Drugs: The Patient has had enough”, The Times (16 December 1982), p. 12
- Health
Man is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now he has not created, but demolished. The forests are disappearing, the rivers are running dry, the game is exterminated, the climate is spoiled, and the earth becomes poorer and uglier every day.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act I, spoken by AstroffIn context
- Nature
You’ve only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
Anton Chekhov1860–1904The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by LopakhinIn context
- Character
- Nature
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936
- God
You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it’ll be refuted tomorrow.
Noam Chomskyborn 1928Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent, 1992
- History
- Truth & Lies
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter VIIn context
- Nature
Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
Bernard of Clairvaux1090–1153Epistola CVI, sect. 2; translation from Edward Churton The Early English Church ([1840] 1841) p. 324
- Education
- Nature
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008“Maelstrom II” (1965)
- Justice
- Nature
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age (1967)
- Morality
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008The Exploration of Space (1951), p. 111
- Technology
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008We’ll Never Conquer Space (1960)
We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke1917–2008We’ll Never Conquer Space (1960)
- Technology