Manifold Quotes
80 quotes by 74 authors
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Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its…
— Annie Besant
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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
— Aeschylus
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Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
— Bertrand Russell
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You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
— George Santayana
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Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
— Gerhard Richter
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We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the…
— Carlo Carra
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And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a word, by the…
— Robert Boyle
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The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance…
— Richard Owen
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The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,…
— Marjorie Garber
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In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in…
— Fritjof Capra
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now…
— Henri Bergson
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Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down by…
— Peter Kropotkin
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In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear…
— Edith Stein
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