„No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.“

As quoted by Cicero in De Divinatione, Book II, Chapter XIII
Iphigenia
Original: (la) Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas.

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Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas.

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They took their places until thousands met;
No leader's stars flash'd on before, and none
Lean'd on his sword or stagger'd with his gun --
I wonder if their feet have rested yet!“

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— Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt American writer 1836 - 1919

Army of Occupation (1866), a Civil War poem written at Arlington, Virginia.

„A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.“

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— Victor Hugo, buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

„Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.“

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— Jeremy Bentham British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer 1748 - 1832

„I'd shoot for the moon, but I'm too busy gazing at stars.“

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— Eminem American rapper and actor 1972

"Not Afraid"
2010s, Recovery (2010)

„Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.“

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— Victor Hugo, buch Die Elenden

Quelle: Les Misérables

„Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —“

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— P. L. Travers Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist 1899 - 1996

Quelle: Mary Poppins (1934), Ch. 10 "Full-Moon"
Kontext: "Bird and beast and stone and star — we are all one, all one —" murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children.
"Child and serpent, star and stone — all one."

„Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.“

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— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Quelle: My Sister's Keeper

„How would you have us, as we are?
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?
Our eyes fixed forward on a star?
Or gazing empty at despair?“

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— James Weldon Johnson writer and activist 1871 - 1938

To America, st. 1.
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)

„I raise my eyes upward. There alone amidst the blue, steadfast, unmoving, fiery marvel of brightness, shines the morning star. Never has that star seemed so radiant, and I stand gazing at it and do not move though the chill of the damp floor imprisons my feet in piercing icebound pain.
Surely I come quickly …“

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— William Styron, buch The Confessions of Nat Turner

Part IV : "It Is Done…"
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)

„All are before me! I behold
The House, the Brotherhood austere!
— And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire,
Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
What dost thou in this living tomb?“

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— Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools 1822 - 1888

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

„There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting“

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— Morris West Australian writer 1916 - 1999

The Heretic (1968)

„“Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?”
The Imass shrugged before replying. “I think of futility, Adjunct.”
“Do all Imass think about futility?”
“No. Few think at all.”
“Why is that?”
The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. “Because, Adjunct, it is futile.”“

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— Steven Erikson, buch Gardens of the Moon

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„Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.“

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— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919

Variante: Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground.
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„You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.“

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— Dan Brown, buch Digital Fortress

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„Bow before him, all creation!
Mortals, own the God of love!
Seek him high the stars above,—
Yonder is his habitation!“

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— Friedrich Schiller, An die Freude

Chorus 3
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

„Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.“

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— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018

„It is God’s will that we have great regard to all His deeds that He hath done, but evermore it needeth us to leave the beholding what the Deed shall be.“

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— Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 33

„Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?“

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— Pat Murphy, buch There and Back Again

Quelle: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 10 (p. 183)

„Nature is a temple where living columns
Let slip from time to time uncertain words;
Man finds his way through forests of symbols
Which regard him with familiar gazes.“

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— Charles Baudelaire, buch Les Fleurs du mal

La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers
Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;
L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles
Qui l’observent avec des regards familiers.
"Correspondances" [Correspondences] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Correspondances
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

„I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name CHAOS, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes.
And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.“

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— Aleister Crowley poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875 - 1947

III Of the Ceremony of the Introit, including what is called the "Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church" http://www.hermetic.com/egc/creed.html.
Liber XV : The Gnostic Mass (1913)

„No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.“

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