Quotes about elements
elements original-thought virtue
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. Vittorio Alfieri
elements birth mystery
Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same. Marcus Aurelius
elements conflict
Woman is also the element of conflict. Marcello Mastroianni
elements jekyll beloved
I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. Robert Louis Stevenson
elements lebanon cows
Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society. Vito Fossella
elements destroyed ifs
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all? Sallust
elements mysterious mystery
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Thomas Carlyle
elements failing existence
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith. Serj Tankian
elements becoming ends
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life. Thorstein Veblen
elements dresses manners
As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
elements world form
Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical--that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.... Thomas Nagel
elements mental-health wells
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. Samuel Alexander
elements firsts awareness
The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists. T. Harv Eker
elements surprise lost
That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise. Sylvester Stallone
elements pleasure position
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position. Susan Sontag
elements chess flaws
The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost. Viktor Korchnoi
elements may firsts
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. Rudolf Arnheim
elements computer humans
With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can. Roger Penrose
elements world doe
We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world. William H. Gass
elements fabulous splendor
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. Wassily Kandinsky