Small Orbits

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or orbits:

“A small garden, figs, a little cheese, and, along with this, three or four good friends—such was luxury to Epicurus.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)