Descent Quotes

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As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world,… — Saint Augustine
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that someone… — Carl Jung
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent… — Al Alvarez
From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last… — Kim Stanley
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it was… — James E. Talmage
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will… — William James
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to… — Charles Baudelaire
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted ('deformed'), and can be restored through God's grace. The… — Carl Jung
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. — C.S. Lewis
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — Charles Darwin
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research… — Pope Benedict XVI
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and… — Kwame Nkrumah
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It… — Kwame Nkrumah
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H. Gass
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish… — Friedrich Engels
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky… — Peter F. Hamilton
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a… — Dennis Prager
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to… — Robert Bly

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