Insignificance Quotes

• Amar. Ser amado. Para no olvidar nunca tu propia insignificancia. Para no acostumbrarte nunca a la indecible violencia y a la vulgar disparidad de la vida que te rodea. Para buscar la alegría en los lugares más tristes. A perseguir la belleza hasta su guarida. A no simplificar nunca lo complicado ni complicar lo sencillo. A respetar la fuerza, nunca el poder. Sobre todo, a observar. Intentar comprender. A no apartar nunca la mirada. Y nunca, nunca olvidar.

  Arundhati Roy

  Vida, Triste, Romántico

  Arundhati Roy (2002). "El álgebra de la justicia infinita", p. 24, Penguin Books India.

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• Todo el mundo necesita sus recuerdos. Mantienen al lobo de la insignificancia lejos de la puerta.

  Saul Bellow

  Recuerdos, puertas, necesidades

  SAUL BELLOW (1971). "EL PLANETA DEL SEÑOR SAMMLER"

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• La vida es un gran tapiz. El individuo es sólo un hilo insignificante en un patrón inmenso y milagroso.

  Albert Einstein

  Vida, Patrones, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein", p.230, Princeton University Press

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• La astronomía nos enseñó nuestra insignificancia en la Naturaleza.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Naturaleza, Enseñanza, Ciencia

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.421, Penguin

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• There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

  Muriel Barbery

  Tree, Feelings, Humanity

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• The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

  Mason Cooley

  Life, Men, Theme

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• En efecto, la enorme masa de la Tierra se reduce a la insignificancia en comparación con el tamaño de los cielos.

  Nicolás Copérnico

  Heaven, Doe, Earth

  Nicolás Copérnico (1978). "Sobre las revoluciones"

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• For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Life Lesson, Blessing, Boredom

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• Nuestra insignificancia es a menudo la causa de nuestra seguridad.

  Esopo

  Safety, Literature, Causes

  Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.190, The Floating Press

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• There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Tree, Feelings

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, 2008.

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• Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

  Roz Savage

  Ocean, Might, Failing

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• The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Motivation, Doe

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• The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.

  Roz Savage

  Heaven, Way, Tiny

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• Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivational, God, Faith

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• It is easier to accept the message of the stars than the message of the salt desert. The stars speak of man's insignificance in the long eternity of time; the desert speaks of his insignificance right now.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Stars, Men, Long

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• ¿Te has dado cuenta de que "qué demonios" es siempre la respuesta correcta?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Amor, Vida, Inspiración

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• If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.

  Craig Stone

  Dream, Creating, People

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• We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

  Aron Ralston

  Exercise, Desert, Unyielding

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Light, Honor

  Mensaje anual al Congreso, 1 dic. 1862

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• Un dolor de muelas, o una pasión violenta, no se ven necesariamente disminuidos por nuestro conocimiento de sus causas, su carácter, su importancia o insignificancia.

  T. S. Eliot

  Passion, Character, Causes

  "Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley". Doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard, ch. 1, 1916.

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• From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

  Richard P. Feynman

  War, Discovery, Views

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.

  Paul Davies

  Secret, Wonderland, Fundamentals

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• Los hombres nunca están debidamente conmovidos e impresionados con la convicción de su insignificancia, hasta que se han contrastado a sí mismos con la majestad de Dios.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Majesty, Conviction

  R. C. Sproul (2016). "¿Qué es la teología reformada? Understanding the Basics", p.29, Baker Books.

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• From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Discovery, Views, Law

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2015). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

  George S. Patton

  War, Helping, God Help Me

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