Quotes About Recapitulation

#1. Recapitulation provided a convenient focus for the persuasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal adult behavior in lower races.

Stephen Jay Gould

#2. To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

Paul Ricoeur

#3. The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being in the first place, and that love is what we all duly celebrate.

Anthony Esolen

#4. Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution.

Max Heindel

#5. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

David Ogilvy

#6. The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty ... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation ... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad ... Truth matters because of beauty.

Alfred North Whitehead

#7. If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.

David Grubbs

#8. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#9. Embodying recapitulation as a practical application to one's path means not living the way you used to live, and being so completely in the moment that you are lost to yourself.

Lujan Matus

#10. Stalking is a very difficult art to come to terms with, for in reality, you can't apply yourself to it. This art inevitably has to apply itself to you.

Lujan Matus

#11. Senses will lie as dreams wake. You are not on solid ground. Don't look down.

Brian McGreevy

#12. If she wanted you, her eyes would buy you out - and you won't even know it. She
was three parts devil, and two parts human; and what remained - unchained
spirit.

Prashant Chopra

#13. And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.

Fiona Shaw

#14. You live not only for yourself but for others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions.

Rob Portman

#16. Presents? We already bought you a lot of things. Member when we were at the market and I bought you gum? You'member.

George Lopez

#17. A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. In most cases, it's not what you do but what you don't do that delivers you to a state of personal power.

Lujan Matus

#19. You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Lord Chesterfield

#20. I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name ...

Walt Whitman

#21. Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

Frederic Bastiat

#22. David Hume, who wrote in 1739 that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Jonathan Haidt

#23. The old Oriental shamans had a much different view when they recalled the movements of kung fu.

Lujan Matus

#24. It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny

George Gaylord Simpson