Dissolution Quotes
102 quotes by 95 authors
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If [America] forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers,…
— Carl Sandburg
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Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.
— Gautama Buddha
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The purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.
— Ian Gardner
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... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I…
— Christer Kihlman
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The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become…
— Empedocles
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The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound…
— Clement Greenberg
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral…
— Ross Macdonald
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples…
— Joseph Campbell
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The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He…
— Robert Briffault
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It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike…
— William Robertson Smith
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Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of…
— Malcolm De Chazal
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The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately…
— David Hume
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Misery makes you special. Misery makes you more egoistic. A miserable man can have a more concentrated ego than a happy man. A happy man…
— Rajneesh
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We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could…
— Warren Buffett
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True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality... and…
— R. D. Laing
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign…
— John Donne
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The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of…
— James H. Cone
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