Penetrate Quotes - Page 13

• As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

  Rachel Cusk

  Writing, Average, Skins

  "I was only being honest" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. Match 21, 2008.

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• Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

  Tom Brokaw

  Audience, Percent, Cables

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• In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Hurt, Order, Arrows

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Posthumous Pieces”, p.55, Sentient Publications

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• Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

  Leonhard Euler

  Science, May, Statistics

  Leonhard Euler (1955). “Commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam corporum fluidorum pertinentes 2nd part”, p.80, Springer Science & Business Media

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• It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand why it is so rare. There are few, indeed, who wish to penetrate into other spheres, higher or lower, in ways allowed or forbidden. Men, in the mass, are amply content with life as they find it. Therefore there are few saints, and sinners (in the proper sense) are fewer still.

  Arthur Machen

  Men, Wish, Saint

  Arthur Machen (2003). “The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen”, Chaosium Fiction Series

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• God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Hands

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• Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

  Brassai

  Photography, Memories, Powerful

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• To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time.  Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Years, Discovery, Self

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• We have sought for firm ground and found none.
  The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

  Max Born

  Rushing, Restless, Found

  Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.277, Courier Corporation

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• Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking.

  W. G. Sebald

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Struggle, Dark

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics

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• A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

  Nhat Hanh

  Teacher, Teaching, Heart

  Nhất Hạnh (Thích.), Thich Nhat Hanh (1998). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering Into Peace, Joy, & Liberation : the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, & Other Basic Buddhist Teachings”

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• The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Discovery, People

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• I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

  Anais Nin

  Understanding, World, Kingdoms

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• A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

  James Salter

  Book, Rivers, Illumination

  "Light Years". Book by James Salter, 2011.

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• A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Health, Knowledge

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• Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the Church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the Wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Children, Eye, Sea

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• The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror

  Gustave Flaubert

  Infinity, Terror, Approach

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• The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

  Franz Kafka

  Soul, Doe, Would Be

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

  Moliere

  Art, Eye, Justice

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• All Catholics must make themselves felt as active elements in daily political life in the countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of civil affairs; must constantly exert the utmost vigilance and energy to prevent the usages of liberty from going beyond the limits fixed by God's law. All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Country, Law, Scary

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

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• Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Adventure, Space

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.

  Anais Nin

  Lonely, Broken, Understanding

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