Edwin Abbott Quotes

Nietzsche said we will never rid ourselves of God because we have too much faith in grammar/language.

Lacan said because of the religious tenets of language, religion will triumph.

Chomsky, master linguist, says 'there are no skeptics. You can discuss it in a philosophy seminar but no human being can - in fact - be a skeptic.'

These musings shed light on Soren K's leap to faith idea. This is more nuanced than the circular leap of faith argument he's been wrongly accused of...

Soren is saying that, as we use the logic of language to express existence and purpose, we will always leap TO faith in a superior, all encompassing, loving force that guides our lives.

This faith does not negate our reason. It simply implies that the reasoning of this superior force is superior to our own. Edwin Abbott crystalizes this in Flatland. ~ Chester Elijah Branch

The men's gazes are heavy on us. Heavy and pointed, three dull sabers to our chests. They would be high-fiving if it were them. Crowing and banging tabletops. We don't move or even smile. ~ Megan Abbott

It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team. ~ Jim Abbott

To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores. ~ Abbott Eliot Kittredge

He looked like he could tie a knot in a fire poker, eat it, and crap it out straight. ~ Megan Abbott

A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power for the accomplishment of almighty purposes, and whose immediate result, as regards man, is his recognition of God as the Supreme Ruler of all things, and of His will as the only supreme law. ~ Abbott Eliot Kittredge

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore. ~ Edwin Meese

Remember this," she says, glowing, her skin golden and life-marked, "you will have to fight your entire life. And that's why you'll always be better. Because you wanted it so much more. ~ Megan Abbott

Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy. ~ Edwin Markham

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister. ~ Tony Abbott

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow. ~ Lyman Abbott

If a man tries to steal your wife, the best form of revenge is to let him have her. ~ Rachel Abbott

I think the important decision for a photographer is to choose a subject that intensely interests him or her. ~ Berenice Abbott

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children
clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer? ~ Diane Abbott

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. ~ Steve Jobs

In Australia's biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, ... there just aren't enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads ~ Tony Abbott

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. ~ Edwin Land

That she was both fearless and fragile and could be hurt badly in ways he could not fix. ~ Megan Abbott

God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well. ~ J. Edwin Orr

Harry hurtled around a corner and found Fred and a small knot of students, including Lee Jordan and Hannah Abbott, standing beside another empty plinth, whose statue had concealed a secret passageway. Their wands were drawn and they were listening at the concealed hole.
"Nice night for it!" Fred shouted as the castle quaked again, and Harry sprinted by, elated and terrified in equal measure. ~ J.K. Rowling

Success does not mean the absence of failures.
It means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
It means winning the war, not every battle. ~ Edwin C. Bliss

They drew a line that shut me out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout!
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle and brought them in. ~ Edwin Markham

Photography helps people to see. ~ Berenice Abbott

lie; secrets and deceit will ultimately undermine a relationship's stability, durability, and longevity. Friedrich ~ Rachel Abbott

As we are being blunt, the fact is that Tony [Abbott] and the people who put him in his job do not want to do anything about climate change. They do not believe in human caused global warming. As Tony observed on one occasion "climate change is crap" or if you consider his mentor, Senator Minchin, the world is not warming, its cooling and the climate change issue is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to deindustrialise the world. ~ Nick Minchin

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear
in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust
that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

Noise is evolving not only the endurers of noise but the needers of noise. ~ Edwin Way Teale

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

No way," he said, shaking his head, shaking the image of Lise, bare-legged, her skirt hitched high, from his thoughts. "Lise, she's a sister to me."
"Oh," she said, fingertips making circles just above the waist of her skirt. Wider and wider circles.
"A sister," he repeated. He looked at her. There was something scratching again, in the corner above his eye, like those metal probes at the dentist clawing at your teeth. ~ Megan Abbott

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens. ~ Matthew Pearl

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen. ~ Tony Abbott

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. ~ Tony Abbott

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. ~ Edwin Percy Whipple

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Why did my body have such a strange, visceral reaction to his presence? It felt almost like deja vu, like we have met before sometime, maybe once upon a dream. It's like he's just on the tip of my tongue, and I can't help but feel like if maybe I had seen his face properly, I would know who he is. ~ Alexis Abbott

Mrs. Abbott, I'm going to the kitchen to wash. You'll want to warn the housemaids to shield their eyes from the sight of my manly chest."
Kathleen, Lady Trenear, came to Garrett. "Whose housemaids would he be referring to?" she asked dryly. "Ours will be crowding into the scullery to obtain the best possible view. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone. ~ Edwin Way Teale

People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid. ~ Megan Abbott