The absorption of the individual in the universal is only…

There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed…

— Theo van Doesburg

[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things you've always…

— Frederick Lenz

[Pope Francis]sees a world in need of the Gospel, and of friendship with Jesus Christ, as an antidote to the self-absorption and loneliness that…

— George Weigel

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

— Timothy Keller

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

— Loretta Young

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

— Harold E. Varmus

Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.

— William George Jordan

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

— Mason Cooley

Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize…

— Swami Vivekananda

I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges…

— Irving Howe

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to…

— Walter Benjamin

The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a…

— Alexander Crummell

I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work, I'd say.…

— Patrick Fabian

In fact, studies show that vegans tend to get more iron than meat eaters. Vitamin C from fruits and vegetables increases iron absorption. Meanwhile,…

— Sharon Gannon