Ascending Quotes
54 quotes by 54 authors
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough…
— Humphry Davy
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
— Raymond Queneau
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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.
— Doreen Virtue
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Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series…
— Horace Mann
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It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It…
— Ken Wilber
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An epiphany enables you to sense creation not as something completed, but as constantly becoming, evolving, ascending. This transports you from a place where there…
— Abraham Isaac Kook
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Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim -. . . for discovery…
— Margaret Caroline Anderson
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The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse…
— Confucius
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Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped…
— John Betjeman
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To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven…
— John Shelby Spong
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Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to…
— John Calvin
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Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.
— Nicholas Culpeper
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You don't think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It…
— Frederik Pohl
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