The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.
... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.
Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down.
No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.
