What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats? Thoreau Journal 9
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Quote:- What surrounds us is what is within us.
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Author:- T.F. Hodge
Category:- best
Quote:- What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Author:- Norman Vincent Peale
Category:- motivational
Quote:- What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Author:- Confucius
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
Author:- Martha Gellhorn
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- What then, are the nonscientific reasons that have fostered the resurgence of biological determinism? They range, I believe, from pedestrian pursuits of high royalties for best sellers to pernicious attempts to reintroduce racism as respectable science. Their common denominator must lie in our current malaise. How satisfying it is to fob off the responsibility for war and violence upon our presumably carnivorous ancestors. How convenient to blame the poor and the hungry for their own condition – lest we be forced to blame our economic system or our government for an abject failure to secure a decent life for all people. And how convenient an argument for those who control government and, by the way, provide the money that science requires for its very existence.
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Author:- Stephen Jay Gould
Category:- science
Quote:- What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Author:- William Wordsworth
Category:- poetry
Quote:- What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind;In the primal sympathyWhich having been must ever be;In the soothing thoughts that springOut of human suffering;In the faith that looks through death,In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Author:- William Wordsworth
Category:- poetry
Quote:- What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Author:- Yukio Mishima
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- What triggers the split? The cause of cell division or what causes cells to divide remains one of the most fundamental, unsolved problems in biology. Allow me to state that truth is simple. This may come as a shock to my colleagues in physics and molecular biology. So best to sit down with a glass of vino but not too long for a sedentary life is unhealthy as we all know. Lest not get distracted however and stick with the cause of cell division. Truth is that 'there is no such thing as cell division'. 'There is only one cell which veils itself so not to be itself.' In fact; I would like to argue that 'there is only one self which veils itself so not to be by itself. Without veiling oneself self could not experience companionship itself and companionship is what self is all about. It is not good for one to be alone. One's very own purpose it is companionship more commonly known as love.' The above ties in nicely with the theory of evolution (which means love in action) and the theory of relativity (time is the result of one not wanting to be alone) to name just a few. Simplified? We are not as divided as it appears. The meaning of life is love.
Author:- Wald Wassermann
Category:- science
Quote:- What truth do you expect to find?They are all guiltyThreatenedAnd bribed
Author:- Maria Karvouni
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?
Memories With Maya
Author:- Clyde Dsouza
Category:- science,time
Quote:- What was building a web but a gustatory expression of hope?
Spiderlight
Author:- Adrian Tchaikovsky
Category:- hope
Quote:- What was closure if not a clock? Not an end as everyone imagined, but a beginning.
In Absence of Fear
Author:- Celeste Chaney
Category:- time
Quote:- What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?
Murder Suicide
Author:- Keith Ablow
Category:- hope
Quote:- What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh, right. A relationship. In any relationship, you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.
Every Last Kiss
Author:- Courtney Cole
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- What was Neil supposed to do with a truth like this? He was going to be dead in four months, five if he was lucky. He wasn't supposed to be this for anyone, Andrew least of all. Andrew said all year long—had said it to Neil's face just this week—that he didn't want anything. Neil shouldn't be the exception to that rule.
The King's Men
Author:- Nora Sakavic
Category:- hope
Quote:- What was the constant?Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. Thependulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flowof time completely …
The Time Keeper
Author:- Mitch Albom
Category:- time
Quote:- What was wrong with these American students? Didn’t they know I was the teacher and they had to do as I said? I learned quickly that my authority meant little, if anything, to them. I was not the all-powerful and feared mwalimu (teacher) of Africa.
America's Daughter
Author:- Maria Nhambu
Category:- hope