#vast

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#able #distinguish #population #produced #read

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#corners #depth #expanse #explore #fences

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#highest #isolated #lord #magnificence #make

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#merry #mountains #vastness #love

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#pessimism #vastarien #dreams