Famous quotes containing the words earth, object and/or survey:
“Since mans highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.”
—Salvador Dali (19041989)
“Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.”
—Isaac Watts (16741748)
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