A Quotes
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“All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique”
“All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is.”
“All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.”
“All mysticism and spirituality point toward awareness, while religion often teaches dependency on forces outside ourselves.”
“All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.”
“All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.”
Source: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?”
Source: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“All mythologies become outdated as the concept of goodness keeps evolving. Every ‘good’ of a particular time becomes ‘evil’ as time changes.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“All myths contain a grain of truth, Ms. Lane. I’ve handled books and artifacts that will never find their way into a museum or library, things no archaeologist or historian could ever make sense of. There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses. Some of us do.”
Source: Darkfever
“All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.”
Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.”
Source: 2666
“All names mean something.”
Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.”
Source: I and Thou
“All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.”
Source: Nietzschean narratives
“All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
“All narcissists are self-obsessed, but malignant narcissists are at the top of the scale. They have a pathological self-belief—a sense of grandiosity, even—which demands attention and admiration. They're convinced they're special in some way and want other people to acknowledge it as well. Crucially, they're also sadists who lack any conscience. They don't necessarily get fulfilment from inflicting pain, but they enjoy the sense of power it gives them. And they're indifferent to any suffering they might cause.”
Source: Whispers of the Dead
“All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.”
“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“All nationalism is nazism.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“All nationalism är nazism.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.”
“All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.”
Source: The Road to Wigan Pier
“All nations agree that ISAF and OEF need to work more closely together, and that when NATO takes over operations throughout the country that there must be unity of command.”
“All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.”
“All nations are equally blessed with some measure of time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.”
“All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.”
“All nations seem to have had supreme confidence in the deterrent power of threatened and inflicted pain. They have regarded punishment as the shortest road to reformation...nations have relied on confiscation and degradation, on maimings, whippings, brandings, and exposure to public ridicule and contempt...Curiously enough, the fact is that, no matter how severe the punishments were, the crimes increased.”
“All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.”
“All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.”
“All nations that have nuclear weapons think that they are responsible and it is the other guys who are irresponsible.”
“All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.”
“All native languages are in danger of dying in Canada. We must each do our part in any way we can to preserve these languages. Cree is my native tongue, the first language I spoke when I came into this earth, so I feel it's my responsibility to do whatever I can to help preserve it.”
“All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.”
Source: Philosophical writings
“All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902
“All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.”
Source: The Heart of William James
“All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“All natural processes are long processes and they last.”
“All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.”
“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.”
“All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.”
“All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.”
“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”
“All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.”
“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life.”
Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
“All nature is the temple; earth the altar.”
“All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.”
Source: The Major Works
“All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—
The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—
And Winter, slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Yet well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,
Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.
Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrighten'd, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And Hope without an object cannot live.
- Work without Hope”
Source: The Complete Poems
“All nature seems at work.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions