Phenomenon Quotes

623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors

The maddest phenomenon in this wholly mad world – that the filming or wirelessing of an event, whether it is the Grand National or an… — James Agate
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter. — Heinrich Heine
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Unknown Author
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting. — Josef Albers
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no… — Candace Pert
We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy my films and… — Peter Greenaway
We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose… — Peter Greenaway
Photography is a strange phenomenon... You trust your eye and cannot help but bare your soul. — Inge Morath
The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some… — Peter HÃ¸eg
A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were aware of a… — Brad Steiger
The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It means that people… — Brad Steiger
Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. — Patricia Hampl
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present… — Jack Gilbert
Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon and as such it is very difficult to define. — Georg Feuerstein
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a ferment of genius,… — Ted Sizer
It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to. — Alex Grey
It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The… — Ralph Caplan
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics, a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory… — Murray Gell-Mann
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular… — Henry David Thoreau
Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making. A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children… — Adam Fletcher
The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it… — Alan Watts
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult… — Ambrose Bierce
I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the… — John Taylor Gatto

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