Von Bertalanffy Quotes & Sayings

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot. — Ashley Scott

Don't matter if you was or wasn't. All they gotta so is say you was. That's all they gotta do. You think cuz you all big and muscled up, you safe? Naw, dem white folks can't stand the sight of you. Walkin' round free as can be. Don't nobody want to see a black man look like you walkin' proud as a peacock. Like you ain't got a lick of fear in you — Yaa Gyasi

We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line. — Ric Flair

People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable. — John Piper

Probing the corners of the room like a caged cat, fly caught in a jar, fart in an elevator. — Dennis Vickers

Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States. — Mel Robbins

By the time Brand Appleton reached the castle grounds, he had acquired a significant crowd. Never in the history of Toll had one man needed so many people to arrest him. — Frances Hardinge

She closed her eyes and wished that the earth would swallow her up. — Neil Gaiman

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

4 He shall call to the heavens from above, And to the earth, that He may judge His people: 5 "Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice." 6 Let the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is Judge. — Anonymous

The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you feel insecure or unhappy, you will be drawn to or create someone who may treat you poorly. Your thoughts, beliefs and emotions are like orders at a restaurant and the Universe/God will serve up whatever you request through your state of mind. Pay attention to your thoughts, beliefs, emotions and words because you are placing orders that you may or may not actually want. — Russell Anthony Gibbs

Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena. — Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further. — Saint John Chrysostom

Respect! I believe young people are quick enough to observe and imitate; and why or how should they respect whom no one else respects, and everybody slights? — Charles Dickens