The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
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Quote:- The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.
Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Author:- Allan Lokos
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The essence of every moment is to find the reason or purpose for being in a particular place at a specific point in time.
Life Is A Circus
Author:- Steven Redhead
Category:- time
Quote:- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.
Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation (Revised)
Author:- Nicholas Tharcher
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The essence of life does not consist in the lushness of your possessions, but in the richness of your heart.
Author:- Roy T. Bennett
Category:- Life,inspiration
Quote:- The essence of religion remains love and kindness, yet it has been the biggest cause of hatred and violence.
Author:- Mouloud Benzadi
Category:- Love
Quote:- The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
Author:- H.L. Mencken
Category:- science
Quote:- The essence of sharing knowledge is to keep a tool ready so that whoever is ready can pick it up and continue from where one stopped.
Author:- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Category:- knowledge,time
Quote:- The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
Basic Writings
Author:- Martin Heidegger
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
From Eros to Gaia
Author:- Freeman Dyson
Category:- science
Quote:- The essential point is that systems of knowledge are never given in their entirety at the outset of an investigation. Their meaning unfolds only gradually, through the exploration of their implications with the help of external representations - for example, by doing calculations, applying a conceptual framework to new circumstances, exposing systems to debate within an epistemic community, and so forth. We therefore speak of the 'generative ambiguity' of external representations, which leads to their seemingly paradoxical function in knowledge transmission: on the one hand, they secure and stabilize the transmission of knowledge over generations, thus ensuring its longevity, while they serve, on the other hand, as tools for thinking and thus agents of change and innovation in the transmission of knowledge.
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Author:- Jürgen Renn
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Blessed Are the Pure of Heart: Catechesis on the Sermon on the Mount and Writings of St. Paul
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Author:- Pope John Paul II
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.
Author:- Benjamin Disraeli
Category:- science
Quote:- The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Author:- Albert Camus
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The evils of life spring partly from natural causes, partly from men’s hostility to each other. In former times, competition and war were necessary for the securing of food, which could only be obtained by the victors. Now, owing to the mastery of natural forces which science has begun to give, there would be more comfort and happiness for all if all devoted themselves to the conquest of Nature rather than of each other. The representation of Nature as a friend, and sometimes as even an ally in our struggles with other men, obscures the true position of man in the world, and diverts his energies from the pursuit of scientific power, which is the only fight that can bring long-continued well-being to the human race.
Sceptical Essays
Author:- Bertrand Russell
Category:- science