Phenomonology Quotes & Sayings

Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad ... — John Keats

Nicholas Sparks and John Green are very different writers. — Ansel Elgort

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand. — Patti Page

Laws and a settled decision procedure to generate them are a good thing. This gives us one important reason for obeying the law. By obeying the law, I can contribute to the respect in which the established decision procedure and the laws are held. By disobeying, I set an example to others that may lead them to disobey too. — Peter Singer

Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject. — Allan McLeod Cormack

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland — Phil Thompson

Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on. — Haruki Murakami

We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren't and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us stronger and wiser. — Malcolm Gladwell

Aren't those vegetables sexy, Rog?" Grant cooed, trying to hold in laughter. "Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together. — Jennifer Lane

To call someone a navel gazer on the mainland is to say that they're narcissistic, self-absorbed in their introspective pursuits. This perspective, I realize, might be the very reason I've come to think of a spiritual life as some sort of luxury. I'm suddenly struck by the irony of a culture that seems to point to personal spiritual quests as somehow selfish when, in the end, those journeys, like the discredited belly button, are ultimately a search for connectivity. — Leigh Ann Henion

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him. — Paul Tillich

Understanding the physiological and neurological features of spiritual experiences should not be interpreted as an attempt to discredit their reality or explain them away. Rather, it demonstrates their physical existence as a fundamental, shared part of human nature. Spiritual experiences cannot be considered irrational, since we have seen that, given their physiological basis, experiencers' descriptions of them are perfectly rational... All human perceptions of material reality can ultimately be documented as chemical reactions in our neurobiology; all our sensations, thoughts, and memories are ultimately reducible to chemistry, yet we feel no need to deny the existence of the material world; it is not less real because our perceptions of it are biologically based... It is not rational to assume that the spiritual reality of core experiences is any less real than the more scientifically documentable material reality. — Sabina Magliocco

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the
world. — J.C. Ryle

A thing too familiar becomes invisible. — Catherynne M Valente

I've been with a beautiful girl from time to time. — David Spade

He felt gladness roar through his soul. — Stephen King

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason — Jimmy Fallon