“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.” NeedsGivingMightChristianOrderUnderstandingChristSawsAtheismMaterialsFindingsProfitPositive AtheismDoctrineEmploymentExplanationMysticismArtificialIntroducingPlatoEverlastingControversyPriesthoodEminence Book:Jefferson: Political Writings Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“The weightlifting competition I saw was the women's 63 kg class. I'm not sure whether this means the actual women weighed 63 kg or the weights they lifted weighed 63 kg. Or possibly the temperature in the weightlifting hall was 63 kg. There's no way to know for sure without finding out what a "kg" is, and my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won.” IfsKnowsWayMeanBeliefSportsUnderstandingClassSawsFindingsWeightCompetitionTerroristNot SureHallsTemperatureMetricsWeightliftingMetric System Author:Dave Barry
“I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point - namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.” SelfStepsPathTakenSawsExpressionFindingsUltimateFollowingIndividuationExponents Author:Carl Jung
“I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen.” SchoolPassionClassSawsFindingsTheaterDown AndPeers Author:Liana Liberato
“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."” WantFirstsChildrenMadeWould BeTogetherHoursDestinySawsInfluenceRocksStyleSceneBandFindingsOkayRadioGradesFifthHoustonRock BandsFreestyleFifth Grade Author:Lizzo
“God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse)” WorldMayMightLawSpiritOrderSituationSawsKingsFindingsGloryIntelligentPrivilegeMidstDiscourseInstituteExaltedPower Of Knowledge Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.” YearsEnjoySawsAchieveVictoryAchievementFindingsIllusionBusyCloudsSeekingBurnedAshesEnjoy LifeSustainingSeeking Happiness Author:Dan Millman