If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone witho... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli... LISA KLEYPAS But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to... AGNES SMEDLEY The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic i... NOSTRADAMUS It should not be smoked like a cigarette, and it should not be smoked in a disco. It's just like at ... ALVIN LEUNG There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all. GERTRUDE STEIN It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL God has created the trees as the sources of food and shelter for others. He has so sensibly not give... MD. ZIAUL HAQUE We should understand that life gives us a gift of 24 hours every day, which cannot be stored nor pre... SUNDAY ADELAJA To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Being happy in God is the way we glorify Him. This is the reason we were created. Delighting in God ... JOHN PIPER There is no reason why Shell could not have done this at the start and if they had, then it could ha... ANGELA KNIGHT Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to... RAYMOND CHAPMAN There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality ed... AL SHARPTON You cannot transform a domain unless you first thoroughly understand how it works. Which means that ... MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it refle... LEONARDO DA VINCI For of what use is existence to the creature if it cannot know its Maker? How could men be reasonabl... ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot unde... JAMES E. FAUST It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselve... MURIEL BARBERY Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or tha... HELEN KELLER You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found... MUMON Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason ... SAMUEL BUTLER I get no kick from champagne, Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why should it be tru... COLE PORTER I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be tr... COLE PORTER When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial per... ARTHUR KOESTLER We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two,... CYRANO DE BERGERAC A lot of those young men were just looking for love, and they got that love from Scrooge. They were ... DREXEL DEAL To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profound... ALBERT EINSTEIN Given that it is a highly contagious disease, we were sure it could spread from one region to anothe... JOSEPH DOMENECH All knowledge should sound simple. If it's too complicated too understand and there's too many if an... BRANDON JAMES There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason... CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason... CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and pa... COLM TOIBIN A smile costs nothing but gives much. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts fo... OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN If we are not applying the lessons to be gained from yesterday's history to address the problems of ... SUZY KASSEM We should all want to know and understand as much as we can about what occurs in the justice system.... DAN CRAWFORD First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the ... BRUCE JACKSON Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and. GLORIA STEINEM There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it. EDITH WHARTON You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the... GEORGE SAUNDERS No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished;... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmind... HERMAN MELVILLE Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it bec... JUDGE LEARNED HAND Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The c... GARY ZUKAV My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i... ANDREI TARKOVSKY There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a subl... MICHAEL LEUNIG She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eterna... RICHARD RUSSO At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger... OLD SONG It is not the activity of the subject of knowledge that produces a corpus of knowledge, useful or re... MICHEL FOUCAULT All ideas come from sensation or reflection.--Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white p... JOHN LOCKE Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is... HELEN KELLER You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, w... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If there can be such a thing as instinctual memory, the consciousness of land and water must lie dee... MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS It may be that EPO traces disappear gradually from urine, but it cannot be that no EPO should be in ... DICK POUND To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case... ALBERT CAMUS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of ... JANET FITCH There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made ... GEORGE SANTAYANA You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, w... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that... HERMAN MELVILLE Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for ... WILLIAM AMES Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?" Harry shook his head. "Let me expl... J.K. ROWLING If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us
to it. If it be no crime, both p... DAVID HUME While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the u... ALYSON NOEL If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive t... BRUCE CHATWIN Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror BERT MCCOY I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so w... TED DEKKER Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mi... J.K. ROWLING We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ... JONATHAN SACKS The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sent... MICHAEL MOORCOCK ...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian s... J.G. BALLARD It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive i... JEREMY TAYLOR It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it... JEREMY TAYLOR It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it... JEREMY TAYLOR There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to te... C.S. LEWIS We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily ... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR The whole world reacts negatively to loss. What wrong has loss done? If you ask God if he has any pr... DADA BHAGWAN The Home Office did not think it necessary to give a single word of explanation to those individuals... GARETH PEIRCE Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientifi... URSULA K. LEGUIN Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that withi... PAULO COELHO We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. Bu... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle o... EDWARD W. SAID Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings... AMY TAN Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of sc... JOHN LOCKE All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON When people look at local government, they're not looking at party affiliation or ideology. They're ... DAVID REBOVICH I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, ... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be cons... PABLO PICASSO
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Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, b... RALPH NADER The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their... RALPH NADER A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. RALPH NADER The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. RALPH NADER A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energ... RALPH NADER If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists. RALPH NADER If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its p... RALPH MERKLE Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is v... RALPH MERKLE Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific ... RALPH MERKLE One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resou... RALPH MERKLE One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger m... RALPH MERKLE There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of ... RALPH MERKLE A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll... RALPH MERKLE Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today... RALPH MERKLE One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing... RALPH MERKLE We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost... RALPH MERKLE We see an entire planet which has many limitations. RALPH MERKLE If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most ... RALPH MERKLE The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, an... RALPH MERKLE Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditio... RALPH MERKLE If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your hea... RALPH MERKLE Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce fo... RALPH MERKLE Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a... RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe. RALPH MERKLE Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power i... RALPH MERKLE Dare to visualize a world in which your most treasured dreams have become true. RALPH MARSTON If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choos... 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