Fragmentary Quotes
44 quotes by 39 authors
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A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.
— Hans Hofmann
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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And…
— Rajneesh
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The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.
— Rajneesh
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held…
— Thomas Harris
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Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and…
— Anandamayi Ma
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Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a…
— Gil J Wolman
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All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest,…
— Ken Wilber
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in…
— Michel de Certeau
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and…
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
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The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Ultimately, love is only possible for humans insofar as they can achieve some comprehension of their place and their duties and their values and their…
— Kenny Smith
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life. We consider…
— Watchman Nee
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Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
— Mary Hunter Austin
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one…
— Witold Gombrowicz
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A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to…
— Jaron Lanier
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