Ascending Quotes

54 Ascending quotes by 53 unique authors

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
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
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between heaven and earth. — Albert Schweitzer
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
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
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
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears. — Raymond Queneau
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
Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body. — Doreen Virtue
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
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
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
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
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
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
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche
"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
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
Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending. — Nicholas Culpeper
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
What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could… — Georg Cantor
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… — Michelangelo
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like… — Annie Dillard
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents… — Walter Savage Landor
We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed… — Joseph Campbell

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