“The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.” LawHeavenVirtueAtheismMankindMovementOrdinaryRegardMiseryPositive AtheismCometsLaws Of Motion Author:Pierre Bayle
“The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.” TryingPersonsDoeBookMomentsStoriesSeemsRealizingPerfectCasesHappenedCenturyGrewOrdinaryAccountsRegardCleverNakedAdamStoryteller20th CenturyGenesisModernismAdam And EveAllegoryFigsBook Of GenesisClever Person Author:Philip Pullman
“Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.” PeopleMenLooksCharacterCertainHouseForceWonderOrdinaryAccountsRegardAdmireLionsFlexibilityOrdinary People Author:Angela Merkel
“To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.” WorldNeedsMeanRealitySpiritualLevelsViewsThis WorldMaterialsOrdinaryRegardPatternsTranscendentMaterial World Author:Ray Kurzweil
“The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master” WorldWellsDoeLawRolesSubjectsMastersCitizensMajorsOrdinaryRegardWesternGuaranteesArbitraryRelianceTransformingRule Of LawWestern SocietyOrdinary Citizens Book:There's no such thing as a free lunch Source: There's no such thing as a free lunch
“It is our duty to give support to the brother leader ... especially in regards to the sanctions which are not hitting just him, they are hitting the ordinary masses of the people ... our African brothers and sisters.” PeopleGivingLeaderSupportBrotherDutyMassOrdinaryRegardHittingBrothers And SistersSanctions Author:Nelson Mandela
“The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.” AsksJesusDifficultDemandGoodnessOrdinaryRegardExtraordinaryUsual Author:Albert Schweitzer
“Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.” TodayDesignCitizensOrdinaryRegardArchitectureReformArchitectReformationOrdinary CitizensDepreciate Author:Kenzo Tange
“When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.” PeopleChildrenOrdinaryRegardTurning PointsHaving Children Book:Perspectives of world history Source: Perspectives of world history