Phenomenon Quotes - Page 36

• Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Light, Color

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Differences, Environmental

  Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.319, Cambridge University Press

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• But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.

  John Ankerberg

  Order, Mold, Doe

  John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub

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• Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it springs.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Spring, Events, Fields

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• Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors.

  Johannes Itten

  Children, Light, Color

  Johannes Itten (1961). “Kunst der Farbe”, Reinhold Pub. Corp

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• If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

  John Brunner

  Evil, Humans, Absolutes

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon. Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Creative, Together

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs”, p.243, Random House

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• It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.

  Albert J. Nock

  Attitude, Average, Years

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Past, Matter, Fit

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• The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Religious, Eye, Heart

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• Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

  Marion Ross

  Loss, Often Is, Denial

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• It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

  Chris Cole

  Happy, Sports, People

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• The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with independent moral worth. But the economic education needed to reduce such ignorance must be based on austere, objective, scientific content—with no ideological or moral content of its own.

  Israel Kirzner

  Ignorance, Independent, Goal

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• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Grandparent

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• I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

  Aleister Crowley

  Soul, Particular, My Soul

  Aleister Crowley “Mysticism & Magick”, Lulu.com

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• Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

  Alexander Lowen

  Faith, Country, Animal

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• Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.

  Stephen Levine

  Pain, Essence, Suffering

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• Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature.

  John Daido Loori

  Expression, Tangible, Clear

  John Daido Loori (2009). “The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans”, p.222, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't know if it is a spiritual, physiological or psychological phenomenon, but I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion.

  Eric Whitacre

  Spiritual, Believe, Compassion

  FaceBook post by Eric Whitacre from Nov 20, 2012

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• Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.

  Jacques Maritain

  Faith, Religious, Atheist

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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• There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Distance, Simple, Finals

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• The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Writing, Class, Cities

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• Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.

  Chuck D

  Musical, Music Is, Music Industry

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