Condenses Quotes

#1. Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

Sam Harris

#2. The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.

Czeslaw Milosz

#3. Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. When bodies spring apart, because the air
Somehow condenses, wander they from truth:
For then a void is formed, where none before;
And, too, a void is filled which was before.

Lucretius

#5. The genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Robert Musil

#6. Spirit forgets that it's Spirit and condenses to a smaller version of itself, which is soul. Soul forgets that it's soul and condenses to mind. Mind forgets that it's mind and condenses to body. Body forgets that it's body and condenses to the lowest dimension that you can have, which is matter.

Ken Wilber

#7. Sir 15:11 Say not: It is through God, that she is not with me: for do not thou the things that he hateth.

Various

#8. I believe in telling it like it is.

Alma Jean Irving

#9. I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#10. And I did everything I could to get over the nagging emptiness that took over every time I thought of Felicity Williams.

Sibylla Matilde

#11. Do you think my Cyn would like a souvenir?" he asked Duncan.
Duncan leaned sideways to study the dripping organ.
"probably not, My lord.

D.B. Reynolds

#12. I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.

David Walker

#13. Like everyone else, I want to be challenged. I want to find out whether or not I am a coward. I want to see how much effort I can put out ... what I can endure ... if I measure up. Running allows that.

George A. Sheehan

#14. You can't think yourself out of a box that's made of your thoughts.

Krishna Das

#15. Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

Keith Richards

#16. We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

Warren Buffett

#17. Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

Thomas Merton