#phenomenon

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#back #captured #film #going #happy

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#exception #individual #only #partly #perceives

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#experiences #happen #having #people #phenomenon

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#explain #giving #label #phenomenon

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#attitude #isolating #method #order #our

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#bound #cause #effect #free #phenomenon

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#best way #called #creative #creative process #elusive

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems