Dissolution Quotes - Page 5

• In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Shining, Faces, Consciousness

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Age, Illness

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Order, Purpose, Realizing

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• Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.

  Daniel Dennett

  Cells, Bears, Needs

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• The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.

  John Buchan

  Religious, Self, Political

  "A University's Bequest to Yout". John Buchan's speech in Toronto (October 10, 1936), as quoted in John Buchan "Canadian Occasions", 1940.

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• When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, People, Pace

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Slavery is the great and foul stain upon the North American Union. A dissolution, at least temporary, of the Union, as now constituted, would now be certainly necessary. The Union might then be reorganized on the fundamental principle of emancipation.

  John Quincy Adams

  Principles, Fundamentals, Slavery

  "John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary". Book by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason, 2016.

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• That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Atoms, Elements, Earth

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.78, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Secret, Principles

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.76, Vintage

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• I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

  Henry L. Benning

  War, Thinking, Safety

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• When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Self, Perception

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• Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Swimming, Self

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• Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Eye, Two Sides

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• It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

  Robert Dabney

  Education, Children, Plato

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• We are transmuting the reality of our perceptual field. There are endless, beautiful and perfect universes - or you can go beyond universes to the dissolution, where there's no beginning.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Reality

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• I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

  Chris Cleave

  Beautiful, Thinking, Stronger

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• The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

  Christopher Bond

  Causes, Small Business, Taxes

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• Memory revises me.
  Even now a letter
  comes from a place
  I don’t know, from someone
  with my name
  and postmarked years ago,
  while I await
  injunctions from the light
  or the dark;
  I wait for shapeliness
  limned, or dissolution.
  Is paradise due or narrowly missed
  until another thousand years?
  I wait
  in a blue hour
  and faraway noise of hammering,
  and on a page a poem begun, something
  about to be dispersed,
  something about to come into being.

  Li-Young Lee

  Memories, Dark, Light

  Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.14, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Moments, Intolerance, Impatience

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1912). “The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Containing Material Never Before Collected”

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• Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.

  Giordano Bruno

  Substance, Said, Changed

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.

  Novalis

  Spiritual, Mean, Past

  "Blüthenstaub". Book by Novalis, 1798.

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• The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an overall effect of light. The color is, through such a shading down from the highest light in the deepest shadows, sacrified an degraded to a (black-and-white) function. This leads to the destructions of the color as color.

  Hans Hofmann

  Black And White, Color, Light

  Helmut Friedel, Tina Dickey, Hans Hofmann, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München (1998). “Hans Hofmann: Wunder Des Rhythmus und Schönheit Des Raumes : [exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Im Lenbachaus in Munich, from 23 April to 29 June 1997, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from 12 September to 2 November 1997 ]”, p.95, Hudson Hills

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• It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Rely Upon, Helping

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

  Fady Joudah

  Art, Thinking, Consciousness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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