Best independent & entity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.”

World Two Able Reading Months Periods Six Aspect Independent Entity Six Months Convincing Transparent Detached Two Worlds Jellyfish

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.”

World Years Firsts Important War Six Independent War Of The Worlds Empires World War I Entity Components Dynasty Hungary Hungarians

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.”

Has Beens Gold Independent Unions Silver Entity Tempted

Author:Milton Friedman

“We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.”

Way Love Mean Friendship Independent Chains Generosity Links Entity

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason.”

Ifs Reason Desire Passion Relation Independent Various Latter Quantum Entity Misunderstanding Passion And Desire

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.”

People Made Helping Interest Rooms Pay Wonder Policy Musician Paid Independent Entity Representing Lobbyists

Author:Erin McKeown

“The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.”

Lasts Known Independent Structure British Kingdoms Traditional Entity Governance Nigeria

Author:Wole Soyinka

“I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.”

Years Wells May Has Beens Seems My Own Interesting Personality Independent Entity Metaphysical Bizarre My Own Personality

Author:Alan Moore

“The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.”

Ifs Men Believe Real Reason Science Found Names Belief Strong Fear Existence Atheism Independent Rage Tendencies Mysterious Entity

Book:Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind

Source: Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind

“I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.”

People Men Firsts Mean States Able Individual Belief Achieve Pages First Time Independent Independence Everyday Entity Sincerely Mobility Credo

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”

Way Universe Literature Term Existence Century Understood Independent Notion Entity Misconception Philosophic

Book:Science and Philosophy

Source: Science and Philosophy

“To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing.”

Knows Firsts Persons Doe Self Spiritual Know How Love You Independent Sake Sufficient Loved Ones Entity I Love You Parasites Say I Love You Self Sufficient Wise Women

Author:Ayn Rand

“Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself.”

World Mind Projects Independent Thread Entity Spiders

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.”

Knows Science Universe Independent Isolated Entity Interdependence Independent Women

Book:Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

“If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.”

Ifs May Real Moments Seems Dies Consciousness Dying Ultimate Independent Threat Notion Passing Absurd Passings Fixed Emptiness Entity Static Passing Away Demise Instability Flux Unwind Looming

Author:Mark Epstein

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