Definition of Horizon

Horizon

The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.

A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.

A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon.

The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.

The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.

The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line.

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Horizon Quotations

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry Miller

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Henry Miller

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry A. Kissinger

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
Warren G. Bennis

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Warren G. Bennis

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
Ella Maillart

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
Dag Hammarskjold

Every historian discloses a new horizon.
George Sand

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
Elizabeth Gaskell

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.
Tom Hanks

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?
Georges Duhamel

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
Bram Stoker

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.
Gordon Parks

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berger

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Stefan Zweig

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
Wole Soyinka

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
Allen Tate

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
Sara Paretsky

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Horizon Translations

horizon in Dutch is kim, horizon, gezichtseinder
horizon in Finnish is horisontti
horizon in French is horizon
horizon in German is Horizont
horizon in Italian is orizzonte
horizon in Norwegian is horisont
horizon in Portuguese is horizonte
horizon in Spanish is horizonte
horizon in Swedish is horisont

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