Phenomenon Quotes
623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors
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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary…
— H P Lovecraft
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What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all…
— Alan Watts
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Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised,…
— Lew Wallace
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Now let me be clear; millions of women around the world nurse their children beautifully for years without giving anybody else a hard time about…
— Tina Fey
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There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people…
— Howard Zinn
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What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest…
— Gail Carriger
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He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of…
— Tessa Dare
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Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to…
— Federico Fellini
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts…
— Victor Hugo
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The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do…
— Eckhart Tolle
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This ´world´ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer. With this amnesia came the phenomenon we call fear,…
— David Icke
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Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable…
— David Mitchell
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Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into…
— Veronica Roth
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His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through…
— Laini Taylor
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I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that…
— Albert Einstein
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Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a…
— Christopher McCandless
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What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be…
— Rajneesh
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The spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society is such that only the non-conformist can defend himself sufficiently against it. Those who are seriously concerned with…
— Erich Fromm
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Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend,…
— Rajneesh
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Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for…
— Rajneesh
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A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more…
— Rajneesh
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An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
— Niels Bohr
Who Wrote These Phenomenon Quotes
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