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«In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
bond, corporeal, grounds, Human Touch, natural order, Order The, physicality, prerequisite, resonance
«Kings are in the moral order what monsters are in the natural»
Author: Henri Gregoire
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natural order
«Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.»
Author: Michael J. Gelb
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base ten, estimate, in other words, natural order, outweigh, outweighs, researcher, researchers, smarter
«As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Miracles
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explained, Human Events, Human Relations, immutable, intelligible, natural causes, natural order, preserves, reference, reference to, relation to
«I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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architecture, history of music, My Sons, natural history, natural order, natural philosophy, Natural right, porcelain, sons, tapestry
«Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.»
«A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.»
Author: May Sarton
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aberrant, Bridges, builder, composer, construct, constructs, cursed, expiate, expiating, genetics, handed, natural order, Order of, The Black
«No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
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contingent, contingent on, genealogical, natural history, natural order, Order of, pathway, pathways, rational, species, The Natural, unites
«Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
imagination, meaning, natural, naturals, natural order, order, Order of, organ, reason, The Natural, The Organ, Truth by Reason
«. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .»
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