William Macneile Dixon Quotes

• Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Pregnancy, Giving, Perspective

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Life, Stars, Eye

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• Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Life, Friends, Death

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Stars, Astonishment, Born

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Heart, Creeps, Feels

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

  William Macneile Dixon

  Hate, Vices, Mankind

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Problem, Theme, Solve

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Confusion, Portraits, Facts

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• Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Iron, Desire, Reason

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Truth, Angel, Men

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