Quotes about disco
discovery essentials our-time
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. Thomas Keating
discovery giving brave
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old. Richard Bach
discovery atmosphere done
The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia. Robert Benchley
discovery wish ends
I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery. Samuel Johnson
discovery civilization two
Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both? Robertson Davies
discovery insanity survival
Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species. Vanna Bonta
discovery quests torches
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. Stephen Hawking
discovery disability sometimes
Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries
discovery decision solitude
As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. Sigmund Freud
discovery self play
You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery. Shahid Kapoor
discovery political intellectual
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. Steven Pinker
discovery law intellectual
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like? Steven Weinberg
discovery class events
Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward. Russell Baker
discovery order ideas
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. Sydney Brenner
discovery interesting people
I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog. Sylvester Stallone
discovery idols lust
A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry. Susan Sontag
discovering
You can never stop discovering music. Rashida Jones
discovery trying mouths
It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food. Stephenie Meyer
discovery achievement taste
I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities. Stephen Bayley
discovery hands feelings
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it? Virginia Woolf
discovery miracle perpetual
... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
discovery stuff meaning-of-life
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so. Werner Erhard
discovery alternatives may
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly? Walker Percy
discovery genius connections
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
discovery fantasy faster
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! Salvador Dali
discovery civilization competition
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition? Virginia Postrel
discovery nuts community
The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained. Vincent Bugliosi
discovery wish important
One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission. W. H. Auden
discovery meaning-of-life recognition
I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
discovery errors joy
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. William Least Heat-Moon
discovery firsts energy
The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning. Wilhelm Reich
discovery musician poet
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. William Kingdon Clifford
discovery justice honor
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow. Winston Churchill