Phenomenon Quotes - Page 19

• ...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Perception, Mind, Said

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• This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Fashion, Fighting, Maturity

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1929.

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• The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Eye, Thinking, Everyday

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

  Dennis Prager

  Fighting, Carbon Emissions, Evil

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• As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

  Peter Drucker

  Understanding, Firsts, Steps

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.236, Routledge

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• The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Society, Scarcity, Natural

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Do you want to be mesmermized by the physical phenomenon?

  Scott Steiner

  Funny, Wwe, Want

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• Humans need Jesus Christ as a necessity and not as a luxury. You may be pleased to have flowers, but you must have bread. . . . Jesus is not a phenomenon, He is bread: Christ is not a curiosity, He is water. As surely as we cannot live without bread, we cannot live truly without Christ: If we know not Christ we are not living, our movement is a mechanical flutter, our pulse is but the stirring of an animal life.

  Joseph Parker

  Jesus, Flower, Animal

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• The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Validation, Rejection, Doe

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• The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Rejection

  Massimo Pigliucci (2010). “Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk”, p.75, University of Chicago Press

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• Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

  Claude Debussy

  Revolutionary, Composer, Debussy

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• ... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

  Saul Bellow

  Confusion, Age, Eras

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

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• Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

  William Ralph Inge

  Survival, Population, Fit

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• Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

  Gunter Grass

  Class, Feelings, Mind

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, People, Evil

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "The Hannity & Colmes Show", www.foxnews.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

  Michael Faraday

  Views, Water, Feelings

  Michael Faraday (1853). “The subject matter of a course of six lectures on the non-metallic elements”, p.176

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• Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, Attitude, Parent

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• It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Men, Sight, Long

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• Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Family, Children, Absence

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

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• I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start with death. We are in eternity now. Norman Vincent Peale It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Running, Rest In Peace, Believe

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• If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

  John Stuart Mill

  Science, Two, Causes

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.224

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• In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Statistics, Succeed

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Doe, Causes

  Claude Bernard, Henry Copley Greene (1957). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect, where something that is shared can become more valuable than something that is closely held, as long as it is both shared and contributed to by everybody who is sharing in it.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Thinking, Names, Long

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• Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Islamophobia, Complexes

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