"The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible."

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Source : Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

Ludwig Buchner

#Climbing Quotes #Goal Quotes #Finals Quotes

“After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.”

Source : Janet Kauffman (2008). “Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes”, p.108, Wayne State University Press
“For anyone having a bad day just remember 'If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.”
“Prince William definitely isn't my type, he's too horsey-looking.”

Source : Daily Mirror, August 2004.
“I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.”
“I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.”
“In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.”

Source : c.1589 The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.
“Bold love is courageously setting aside our personal agenda to move humbly into the world of others with their well-being in view, willing to risk further pain in our souls, in order to be an aroma of life to some and an aroma of death to others.”

Source : Dan B. Allender, Tremper Longman (1992). “Bold love”, NavPress Publishing Group

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