William Macneile Dixon Quotes

• El nacimiento es la súbita apertura de una ventana, a través de la cual se contempla una perspectiva estupenda. ¿Qué ha sucedido? Un milagro. No has cambiado nada por la posibilidad de todo.

  William Macneile Dixon

  Pregnancy, Giving, Perspective

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

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  Vida, Estrellas, Ojo

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• Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

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  Life, Friends, Death

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• Si existe una estrella escéptica, yo nací bajo ella. Sin embargo, he vivido todos mis días en completo asombro.

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  Stars, Astonishment, Born

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

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  Heart, Creeps, Feels

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

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  Hate, Vices, Mankind

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

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  Problem, Theme, Solve

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

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• The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

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  Confusion, Portraits, Facts

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• Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

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  Iron, Desire, Reason

  William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

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• Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

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  Truth, Angel, Men

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