Phenomena Quotes

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Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing. — Victor Hugo
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its… — Fredric Jameson
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated… — Paulo Coelho
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
Einstein does not remain attached to the classical principles, and when presented with a problem in physics he quickly envisages all of its possibilities. This… — Henri Poincare
I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another,… — Jan Morris
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena. — Dalai Lama
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the… — Gautama Buddha
When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One… — Gautama Buddha
Just as you have come to know, the false discrimination of yourself, apply this mentally to all phenomena — Gautama Buddha
A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules — Robert Axtell
If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does… — Gautama Buddha
All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. all phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed. — Gautama Buddha
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not… — Isaac Newton
I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe… — Charles Darwin
Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner. — Huey Newton
In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning of a machine is explained… — Georges Canguilhem
The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large… — Edmund Husserl
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them… — Baruch Spinoza
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and… — Vissarion Belinsky

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