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Letter "P" » phenomenon
«If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it»
Author: Bette Midler
(Actress, Singer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
how come, natural phenomenon, phenomenon
«It makes no more sense to postulate a special brain-soul in order to account for the activities of the brain than to postulate a special stomach-soul in order to explain the functioning of the stomach or a special lung-soul to explain the phenomenon»
«Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
| Keywords:
causes, conditions, consequently, explained, expresses, involved, phenomenon, social, special, special act, stamp, stamping, stamp out, suicide, temperament, temperaments, The Social, victim
«I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.»
Author: Frantz Fanon
| Keywords:
ascribe, ascribed, morphology, phenomenon, syntax, The Weight, weight
«It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man»
«Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.»
Author: Shirley Hazzard
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
Americans, American civilization, civilization, out to, phenomenon, turn out
«Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Humanity,
War
| Keywords:
absurd, Death itself, once more, phenomenon, prevented, table, unfair
«If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
calculation, cleaved, cleaving, cleft, clefts, comprehended, concur, concurred, concurring, concurs, confined, description, detect, detected, entireness, ignorance of the law, infer, inferred, infers, infinite number, instances, irregularity, Laws of nature, notions, one form, outline, outlines, phenomenon, points of view, profile, profiles, profiling, seemingly, The Traveler, traveler, view as, vitiated, vitiating
«Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
appearance, Creative minds, phenomenon, primeval, reflection, utterances, various, visible
«In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.»
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