Hermeneutics Phenomenology Quotes & Sayings

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told. — Philip Moeller

I am the resurrection and the life.* Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. 26Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. — Anonymous

When all you've got is nothing, there's a lot to go around. — Hans Zimmer

Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry. — Alice Meynell

It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another, in either an election or a horse race.
It's the horse that comes in first at the finish that counts — Harry S. Truman

Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something "bigger than that" before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of "I can't do anything till I find myself. — Laura C. Schlessinger

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. — Johanna Lindsey

Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angels-but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. — Alan Judd

An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them." That is, all of the numerous practices or paradigms of human inquiry - including physics, chemistry, hermeneutics, collaborative inquiry, meditation, neuroscience, vision quest, phenomenology, structuralism, subtle energy research, systems theory, shamanic voyaging, chaos theory, developmental psychology - all of those modes of inquiry have an important piece of the overall puzzle of a total existence that includes, among other many things, health and illness, doctors and patients, sickness and healing. — Ken Wilber

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity. — Sharon Salzberg

Braden: "How do you do that?"
Laura: "Do what?"
Braden: "Make me crazy with just a kiss. It makes me feel like I'm sixteen. — Lacey Alexander

In embracing your difficulties is liberation. — Nahiyan Bin Asadullah

Daggers. Never leave home without them. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. — George Jean Nathan

Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao. — Laozi