Camille Flammarion Quotes

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I have fitted your mind, my dear old friend, to receive such strange impressions as no earthly spectacle has produced or could produce.

Camille Flammarion
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

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If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

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Mathematicians, whose tempers are generally intolerable, are perhaps psychologically excusable, for the constant tension of their mind is, perhaps, the cause of their bad digestion and their state of hypochondria.

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These are lights which glimmer on the frontiers of creation; they are the beginnings which show us the birth of other universes; they are the voices of the past which speak to us from the depths of the vanished ages.

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Like a shower of stars the worlds whirl, borne along by the winds of heaven, and are carried down through immensity, suns, earths, satellites, comets, shooting stars, humanities, cradles, graves, atoms of the infinite, seconds of eternity, perpetually transform beings and things.

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The silent star of night is the first halting-place on a voyage towards the infinite.

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The Known is an infinitesimal island in the midst of the vast ocean of the Unknown.

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We saw the Earth hanging in space, like a globe isolated on all sides, and surrounded at vast distances by a multitude of stars.

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Our planet is only a province of the Infinite Heavens, so our actual existence is only a stage in Eternal Life.

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The study of the earth teaches us to understand the sky, and in the microscopical atom we inhabit the vibrations of the infinite are revealed.

Camille Flammarion