#horizon

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. ↗

— William Whewell

#always #bending #cord #downwards #fine

When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland. ↗

— John Hench

#go #horizon #just #park #you

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#far #go #horizon #how #how far

I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#culturally #culture #encompass #enough #horizon

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#dying #earth #horizontal #into #power

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#anywhere #cannot #distances #geographic #horizon

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#according #banners #behind #bourgeois #communist

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. ↗

— Henry Miller

#artist #committed #fulfillment #him #his

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ↗

— Hal Borland

#again #also #clearly #constellations #distant