“It is manifest that everything in the world, whether it be substance or accident, produces rays in its own manner like a star... Everything that has actual existence in the world of the elements emits rays in every direction, which fill the whole world.”
— , De Causis diuersitatum aspectus et dandis demonstrationibus geometricus super eas, also known as De Aspectibus (ca. 860) as quoted by , Theories of Vision from Al-kindi to Kepler (1976)
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen, Act I (1773).
“Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.”
— Stanisław Lem, in His Master's Voice (1968) as translated by Michael Kandel (1983).
“In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
— Aaron Rose, quoted in The Reader's Digest Vol. 152 (1998), p. 185, also in Live in the Light : A Journal of Self-Enlightenment (2003) by Mary Engelbreit.
“Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature, Chapter III.
“But it is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.”
— Algernon Sidney, Discourses on Government, Chapter II, Section XXIII.
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"Light" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM from their 1993 album Angst. The single was first released in 1994 and contains nine different remixes of the song. "Light" peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart in May 1994. The single was re-released as a 7" in 2009, and the song was remixed and released as "Light 2010" on December 17, 2010.
"Light" is a song by industrial rock band KMFDM from their 1993 album Angst. The single was first released in 1994 and contains nine different remixes of the song. "Light" peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart in May 1994. The single was re-released as a 7" in 2009, and the song was remixed and released as "Light 2010" on December 17, 2010.
