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penetrate
«Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.»
«The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.»
«The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.»
Author: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
(Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cords, in the flesh, penance, penetrate, safest, scourge, suitable, superficially
«The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.»
Author: Yehudi Menuhin
| Keywords:
penetrate, piercing, propagandist, propagandists, protective, trader, traders, violinist
«The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate H»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
adore, contemplate, investigation, penetrate, suitable
«Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin?»
Author: Jules Verne
(Author)
| Keywords:
centre, conclusions, earnest, globe, intention, in earnest, lofty, lunatic, massive, penetrate, scientific, speculations, the scientific
«Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.»
«Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
aware, constant, deeper, evasion, evasions, from time to time, mostly, penetrate, penetrated, rarely, substratum, unnamed
«To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
clouds, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, general, penetrate, penetrated, strengthened, The General
«Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Space
| Keywords:
fleeing, flights, Mars, penetrate