“When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.” MenForceSawsGreaterHeardRainAccountsVariousPrimitiveLightningThunderPrimitive ManSupernatural Forces Book:Anarchism and Other Essays Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.” MindSawsGreaterConstitutionTendenciesPoetry IsFacultyIndigenous Book:Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.) Source: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)
“It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.” TwoSpiritGivenStarsCreativityCreativeSawsGreaterParticularAspectPerfectionAbsolutesMoodCosmosMakersBarren Author:Olaf Stapledon
“I never saw a player who had greater promise.” SawsGreaterPlayerPromiseBaseball Author:Casey Stengel
“But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth And the filth in the heart of Man-- Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat than that of the Sun.” MenWorldHeartLittlesEvilSunSawsGreaterWeightGreedLustRanHeatAntsFilthWeight Of The WorldLust And Greed Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.” IfsBelieveWellsWantedAsksSpaceSupportStruggleSawsGreaterAirPossibilityWindMachinesStrongerSpeedConquerGentlemanAviationReceivingPredictionsAdaptedSusceptible Author:Jules Verne
“Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.” MomentsProblemFatherJesusDarknessSawsGreaterDevilOppositesReactionsImpressed Author:Bill Johnson
“Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.” LawSawsGreaterEqualBenefitsDisappointmentSeedsHillsTransmutation Author:Napoleon Hill