Top 15 Numen Quotes
#2. Otto concurs with James that the numen appears as an objective presence, and that it is distinguishable from every other object we experience, because it is more deep and more general (all-encompassing) than all other objects.
Robert Spitzer
#3. Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.
Matt Smith
#4. The enemy uses lies to make problems appear bigger than the solutions we carry.
Bill Johnson
#5. I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#7. The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen. the presence of the sacred, is called by its name.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#8. But the lawyer he jumps on the table and yells, and says: "Gentlemen - gentlemen! Hear me just a word - just a single word - if you please!
There's one way yet - let's go and dig up the corpse and look.
Mark Twain
#9. You have never been married? You are a spinster?" Diana laughed. "Why, she can't be above seventeen or eighteen years old, St. John," said she. "I am near nineteen: but I am not married. No.
Charlotte Bronte
#10. Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Henry Miller
#11. Nobody's so damn well educated that you can't learn ninety per cent of what he knows in six weeks. The other ten per cent is decoration.
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. A first kiss, I think, should be important, special. It should be with the person you want to kiss more than anybody in the world.
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
#13. One has no protecting power save prudence.
[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
Juvenal
#15. I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.
Chris Bohjalian
