O Quotes
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“Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming, and our separation from nature.”
Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”
Source: The Reformation: The Story of Civilization
“Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.”
Source: The Philosophy of Santayana
“Our knowledge is so limited that often we are not much better than an ape.”
“Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.”
Source: On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war
“Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.”
Source: On the Accuracy of Economic Observations
“Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“Our knowledge of Jesus is in need above all of a living experience: Another person's testimony is certainly important, as in general the whole of our Christian life begins with the proclamation that comes to us from one or several witnesses. But we ourselves must be personally involved in an intimate and profound relationship with Jesus.”
“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
“Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.”
Source: The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the frontiers of cosmology
“Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a universe in which radiant energy of almost all wave lengths travels in straight lines over enormous distances with usually rather negligible absorption.”
“Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.”
“Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.”
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is the faculty of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity of concepts). Through the first an object is *given* to us, through the second the object is *thought* in relation to that representation (which is a mere determination of the mind). Intuition and concepts constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts can yield knowledge. Both are either pure or empirical. They are empirical when they contain sensation (sensation presupposes the actual presence of the object). They are *pure* when no sensation is mixed in with the representation. Sensation may be called the matter of sensible knowledge. Pure intuition, therefore, contains only the form under which something is intuited, and the pure concepts contains only the form of thinking an object in general. Pure intuitions and pure concepts alone are possible *a priori*, empirical intuitions and empirical concepts only *a posteriori*.
We call *sensibility* the *receptivity* of our mind to receive representations insofar as it is in some wise affected, while the *understanding*, on the other hand, is our faculty of producing representations by ourselves, or the *spontaneity* of knowledge. We are so constituted that our intuition can never be other than *sensible*; that is, it contains only the mode in which we are affected by objects. The faculty, on the contrary, which enables us to *think* the object of sensible intuition is the *understanding*. Neither of these properties is to be preferred to the other. Without sensibility no object would be given to us, without understanding no object would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. It is, therefore, just as necessary to make our concepts sensible (i.e., to add the object to them in intuition) as to make our intuitions understandable (i.e., to bring them under concepts). These two faculties or capacities cannot exchange their functions. The understanding cannot intuit anything, the senses cannot think anything. Only from their union can knowledge arise. But this is no reason for confounding their respective contributions; rather, it gives us a strong reason for carefully separating and distinguishing the one from the other. We therefore distinguish the science of the rules of sensibility in general, i.e., aesthetic, from the science of the rules of the understanding in general, i.e., logic."
―Transcendental Doctrine of Elements. Transcendental Logic: The Idea of a Transcendental Logic”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).”
Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason
“Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.”
“Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.”
“Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey
“Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.”
“Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.”
“Our labor has become
more important
than our silence.”
Source: The Black Unicorn: Poems
“Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you.”
“Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.”
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
Source: Candide
“Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".”
Source: God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
“Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.”
“Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“Our lack of motivation is often based on the fear that we will fail at the very thing for which we were motivated prior to our surrender to fear.”
“Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.”
“Our Lady is always close to us, especially when we feel the weight of life with all its problems”
“Our Lady! is dizzy,
ill, among sparrows”
Source: Granted
“Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.”
“Our Lady of the Underground never asks me to choose between day and night. If I want to flourish I need the ever-changing light of darkness as much as I need the full of light of day. Give your heart to them both, she says. When I complain that I cannot see as well at night as I can during the days, she tells me this is a good thing. Maybe it will slow you down. When I tell her that I cannot get as much done at night because darkness makes me sleepy, she says yes, that is the plan. Maybe you will get some rest. When I point out that slowing down just makes me think about things I would rather not think about, she laughs. Do you think that not thinking about them will make them go away?”
Source: Learning to Walk in the Dark
“Our Lady pleaded and insisted that men must say the daily Rosary. Reparation holds back the hand of God from striking the world in just punishment for its many crimes. The Rosary is like a sword or weapon the Mother of God can use to cut down heresy and the forces of evil. It is most powerful, and many times has saved the world from situations as bad as, if not worse than, the one facing us today.”
Source: Our Lady of Fatima's Peace Plan From Heaven
“Our Lady said that to alter the Liturgy would be suicide for the Church.”
Source: Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul
“Our lamps and torches produce artificial lights, but we don't dare to call them so because they have been proved to be useful in our daily basis.”
“Our land here is the dearest thing on earth to us. Men take up land and get rich on it, and it is very important for us Indians to keep it.”
“Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.”
“Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.”
“Our land is like a poem, in a patchwork landscape of other poems, written by hundreds of people, both those here now and the many hundreds that came before us, with each generation adding new layers of meaning and experience. And the poem, if you can read it, tells a complex truth. It has moments of great beauty and of heartbreak. It tells of human triumph and failings, of what is good in people and what is flawed; and what we need, and how in our greed we can destroy precious things. It tells f what stays the same, and what changes; and of honest hard-working folk, clinging on over countless generations, to avoid being swept away by the giant waves of a storm as the world changes. It is also the story of those who lost their grip and were swept away from the land, but who still care, and are now trying to find their way home.”
Source: Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
“Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals. We cannot sell the lives of men and animals. It was put here by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us”
“Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.”
“Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997
“Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“Our landlord, Mr. Duggan, ran a nearby saloon. He got in trouble with Father for helping himself to the rhubarb which we were growing in the garden. I remember the grey summer dusk in which this happened. We were at the supper table, when the bended Mr. Duggan was observed, like some whale in the sea of green rhubarb, plucking up the red stalks. Father rose to his feet and hastened out into the garden. I could hear indignant words. We sat at the supper table, silent, not eating, and when Father returned I began to question him, and to endeavour to work out the morality of the situation. And I still remember it as having struck me as a difficult case, with much to be said on both sides. In fact, I had assumed that if the landlord felt like it, he could simply come and harvest all our vegetables, and there was nothing we could do about it. I mention this with the full consciousness that someone will use it against me, and say that the real reason I became a monk in later years was that I had the mentality of a medieval serf when I was barely out of the cradle.”
“Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.”