Quotes About Phenomena

I am comparing gravity with belonging... Both phenomena observably exist... but neither is understood...We know the force of gravity but not its origins; and to explain how we become attached to our birth places we pretend that we are trees and speak of roots. Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places. -- from Home and Shame

Thoughts matter and they become matter. We can't separate them like Descartes did. Our thoughts influence physical phenomena; they interact with all the matter in the universe. In truth, our personal reality is just a reflection of our personality.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

A more appropriate question to ask a Buddhist is simply, "What is life?" From our understanding of impermanence, the answer should be obvious: "Life is a big array of assembled phenomena, and thus life is impermanent." It is a constant shifting, a collection of transitory experiences. And although myriad life-forms exist, one thing we all have in common is that no living being wishes to suffer. We

Because history is a rational process, universal history is the manifestation of a "Spirit whose nature is always one and the same, but which unfolds this its one nature in the phenomena of the World's existence.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural… We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

The agnostic ruling class for whom religion was a kind of puppet show to amuse the polpulace and keep it docile, and who believed essentially that all phenomena – even religious phenomena – could be reduced to mechanical explanations.

cualquier cosa que podamos identificar como nuestro universo solo es una parte de fenómenos más amplios.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

some American anthropologists, who were already warning before the end of the 1960s that the term 'witchcraft' was being used as a label for phenomena that differed radically between societies.

All the errors of this school rest precisely on the conception that mistakes the phenomena of competition, as seen from the angle of the isolated capitalist, for the phenomena of the whole of capitalist economy.

The history of transformational phenomena—the Internet, for example, or paradigm shifts in science, or the spread of a new religion—suggests that transformation happens less by arguing cogently for something new than by generating active, ongoing practices that shift a culture's experience of the basis for reality.

Pliny paid for his phenomena!...I've paid a bit, too...everything worthwhile has its cost!...if it's free, you're down with the shithead fraternity! blabbermouths, charlatans, the whole gang!...into the crapper with 'em! every one! right in the shitter!...it's unlistenable!...just a bunch of farts!...I'm telling you!...

We feel as if we had to penetrate phenomena: our investigation, however, is directed not towards phenomena, but, as one might say, towards the 'possibilities' of phenomena.

Cessation is believed to be a direct insight into an unconditioned reality (Pali: Nibb?na; Sanskrit: Nirvana) that lies behind all manifest phenomena.

Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.