Von Bertalanffy Quotes

#1. I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Emily Dickinson

#2. I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confederate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy; but I feel it within me that it is to be so.

Ulysses S. Grant

#3. It is the 'zoomorphic' or 'rattomorphic' fallacy - the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man - which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#4. We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#5. Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#6. The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ...

Thorstein Veblen

#7. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration.

William Wordsworth

#8. The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.

Karel De Gucht

#9. A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

Robert Ardrey

#10. They've also sent some incidental things - jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.

Frank Herbert

#11. I look at people who aren't us and I hate them.

Kristin Hannah

#12. The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#13. Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

Adolf Hitler

#14. People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#15. You have it on your noise, but you still need a glass to see it ... We need others to admit our faults.

Amen Muffler

#16. I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good ... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.

Joe Hill

#17. If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.

Jonathan D. Spence

#18. Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

#19. This is my favorite place. Buried in you," he murmurs against my skin.
"Please, move," I plead.
"Slow, Mrs. Grey." He flexes his hips again and pleasure radiates through me. I cup his face and kiss him, consuming him.
"Love me. Please, Christian.

E.L. James

#20. I know the commitment that TV requires but it's nice to come to work and have fun.

Michael Ealy