Irreducible Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the… — D. H. Lawrence
Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with… — Arnold Haultain
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. — Thomas More
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to… — John Berger
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I… — Edmund de Waal
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… — Thomas Merton
We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer… — Larry Tesler
If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything. — Mary McCarthy
The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover… — Joshua L. Liebman
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of… — Kenny Smith
...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say… — Robert H. Schuller
One can study what exists and how consciousness functions; but one cannot analyze (or â€œproveâ€) existence as such, or consciousness as such. These are irreducible… — Ayn Rand
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing,… — Gretel Ehrlich
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to… — BrenÃ© Brown
Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irreducible… — Patricia J. Williams
The image of God carries with it the right not to be mistreated or harmed.... Regardless of their record or character, all human beings have… — Timothy Keller
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. — Stephen Jay Gould

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