If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Quote:- If we look at all the amazing things people have created throughout history, they were all considered impossible by the status quo at some point in their development.
Dreammakers: Innovating for the Greater Good
Author:- Michele Hunt
Category:- hope
Quote:- If we look through the aperture which we have opened up onto the absolute, what we see there is a rather menacing power--something insensible, and capable of destroying both things and worlds, of bringing forth monstrous absurdities, yet also of never doing anything, of realizing every dream, but also every nightmare, of engendering random and frenetic transformations, or conversely, of producing a universe that remains motionless down to its ultimate recesses, like a cloud bearing the fiercest storms, then the eeriest bright spells, if only for an interval of disquieting calm. We see an omnipotence equal to that of the Cartesian God, and capable of anything, even the inconceivable; but an omnipotence that has become autonomous, without norms, blind, devoid of the other divine perfections, a power with neither goodness nor wisdom, ill-disposed to reassure thought about the veracity of its distinct ideas. We see something akin to Time, but a Time that is inconceivable for physics, since it is capable of destroying without cause or reason, every physical law, just as it is inconceivable for metaphysics, since it is capable of destroying every determinate entity, even a god, even God. This is not a Heraclitean time, since it is not the eternal law of becoming, but rather the eternal and lawless possible becoming of every law. It is a Time capable of destroying even becoming itself by bringing forth, perhaps forever, fixity, stasis, and death.
After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
Author:- Quentin Meillassoux
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- If we only knew our real Self, we would be truly ashamed of what we do and allow.
Author:- Bert McCoy
Category:- Love
Quote:- If we proceed like the child does with the puppy, if we examine what is hidden in things and persons, in everything that is stimulating in this colorful world, then we will uncover nothing more than that kind of atomized sawdust with which 'science' for a long time has been feeding those hungry for knowledge. Everything real looked at in the light disappoints. The forms lose their shine, color, and aroma, like a fruit that someone has grasped too strongly.
Grenzen der Gemeinschaft
Author:- Helmuth Plessner
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- If we radiate feelings and thoughts of wealth and affluence, we will naturally attract more wealth and affluence into our life. The same is true, then, of the opposite.
The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
Author:- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr
Category:- Love
Quote:- If we see ourselves primarily from the point of view of our relationships (good, bad, and ugly), we will never be able to reach our full potential. While we deeply love those God gives us along the way, the most important, ongoing relationship we will ever have is with our own Divine being. We were born as a single entity, we will face death on our own, and we must make our way back to the Divine under our own steam. Never give that right and responsibility away to another person, and never take it from another. You will find that the respect and gratitude from those you do this for runs deep.
Touched by Love
Author:- Donna Goddard
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- If we sit back lamenting our fate we forget that we can influence it
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
Author:- Maureen Lindley
Category:- best
Quote:- If we subject ourselves to the same ‘cookie cutter’ patterns day in and day out, the perception of time’s passage accelerates substantially. Nuance slows time.
Author:- Jay D'Cee
Category:- motivational,inspiration,hope,time
Quote:- If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Author:- Rainer Maria Rilke
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If we surrenderedto earth’s intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.Instead we entangle ourselvesin knots of our own makingand struggle, lonely and confused.So like children, we begin again...to fall,patiently to trust our heaviness.Even a bird has to do thatbefore he can fly.
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Author:- Rainer Maria Rilke
Category:- poetry
Quote:- If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory, we may single out the essentials for the present that might be best shots for the future. (Never looking back again", )
Author:- Erik Pevernagie
Category:- time
Quote:- If we talked and wrote only about things we know, how much silence...
Author:- Luigina Sgarro
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
Author:- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- If we try to measure Now, we find it's always gone, has become part of the past.
The Toll Bridge
Author:- Aidan Chambers
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- If we want a better world, we must never cease to think about what kind of world we want... and we must not be afraid to do whatever it takes to make the world the way it should be. It is not enough just to talk. We must act!
The Beast's Garden
Author:- Kate Forsyth
Category:- hope
Quote:- If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outward display of criticism and skepticism lay concealed a deep philosophical interest even in those dark areas of reality of the human mind which elude the grasp of reason. And while the power of fascination emanating from Pauli's analyses of physical problems was admittedly due in some measure to the detailed and penetrating clarity of his formulations, the rest was derived from a constant contact with the field of creative processes, for which no rational formulation as yet exists.
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Author:- Werner Heisenberg
Category:- science,philosophy