Seems Quotes
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.
Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.
Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.
If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.
Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.
My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place.
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.
Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.
I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.
A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.
Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.
The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion.
The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations