Cosmogonal Quotes & Sayings

We can be sure, he [Kant] says, that anything we shall ever experience must show the characteristics affirmed of it in our a priori knowledge, because these characteristics are due to our own nature, and therefore nothing can ever come into our experience without acquiring these characteristics. — Bertrand Russell

We don't get contacts, we don't find contacts, we don't have contacts; we make connections with real people. — Michael Port

It was good to be admired for something. Everyone should feel that way sometimes, he thought. — Alex London

As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure. — William Gurnall

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent — Norbert Wiener

I've seen the future all my life,' she says. 'It tends to work as a paradox, in my experience. You find out something is going to happen, and then you do it because you know that's what happens. It's a chicken-or-the-egg scenario. — Cynthia Hand

The whole thing seems absurdly easy - so easy that you ought to smell a rat. — Phillip E. Johnson

From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty. — Susan Sontag

I personally would rather do the Master Cleanse for ten days than just eat salad for six months. — Gigi Hadid

If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound. — Dana Gould

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges. — Henry David Thoreau

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics. — Kid Rock

Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give you victory. Your emptiness - is but the preparation for your being filled; and your casting down - is but the making ready for your lifting up! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon