Phenomenon Quotes - Page 28

• Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Ideas, Community, Energy

  "Sämtliche Werken, vol. III". Book by Josef Nadler, 1949-1957.

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• Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

  D. V. Ager

  Records, May, Fossils

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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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• 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 most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

  Clara Zetkin

  War, Fighting, Weapons

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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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• By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

  David Whyte

  Mainstream Society, Interesting, Quality

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• There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

  Denise Mina

  Children, Book, Reading

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• People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Vampire, Fascination

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• Without Greece, it is not possible to preserve the integrity of the European phenomenon.

  Evangelos Venizelos

  Integrity, Greece, Preserves

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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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• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Europe, Opera, I Can

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• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.

  Anthony Giddens

  Moving, Adoption, Design

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  Eben Alexander

  Believe, Neurosurgeons, Near Death

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• Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

  Will Self

  Real, Dying, Disease

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Thinking, Culture, Pops

  "Laurence Fishburne for 'The Matrix Reloaded'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 5, 2003.

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• Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Evil, Good And Evil, Humans

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• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

  Wim Wenders

  Cinema

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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