Ontology Quote by Thomas Mann Download Open image ““... a secret and ardent stirring within the frozen chastity of the universal.”” — Thomas Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ontology
“In the first place, the word universal conceals a gross sophism.” — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface.” — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
“in the cold you wrap me. in my uncertainty you listen. in all my joys you celebrate. at every turn you meet me with… — mary anne radmacher Copy Share Image
“The secret seems to be the only way to become mysterious and wonderful modern life. The commonest thing gets a touch fascinating when done… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.” — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
“Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Something was unfurling within me from behind the fear of societal expectation. Something true and deep. A part of my soul I'd always known… — Natasha Boyd Copy Share Image
“On the whole, Cold Comfort was not without its promise of mystery and excitement.” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive.” — Bryan Hall Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune grozničave tajne… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
“One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essential nature) can, in principle,… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the identifiability of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
![“To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about all of creation, then there is no God, then this whole story about creation, about joy, and about the light of life is…” quote by Alexander Schmemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e8/alexander-schmemann-18392_christian_to-be-more-precise-death-is-contrary-to_126170.jpg)
