Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite. ”
“If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.”
“Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not”
“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
“The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where man is never lonely, for he senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature.”
“If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.”
“The earth does not want new continents, but new men.”
“Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.”
“What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?”
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Book Keywords:
spiritual, philosophical
