#unfold

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #history #intellect #itself #like

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#experiences #fabulously #get #how #keep

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#greater #ignorance #increases #knowledge #more

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#cannot #continue #darfur #genocidal #i

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it! ↗

— Sai Baba

#even #lotus #must #petals #rises

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#far #forth #gospel #indeed #known

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#drama #ecological #leading #life #obtaining

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#unfolding

But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#call #completely #control #eva #first