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  • The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

    Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press
  • Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

    Ladders   May   Ascent  
  • See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

    Lying   Thinking   Pearls  
    Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.287
  • Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

  • I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

    Education   Path   Firsts  
    John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.275
  • It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

    Depth   Ascent   Path  
    Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.259, Emblem Editions
  • Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it cost the life of four of his party. Now, however, any tourist can be hauled up for a small cost, and perhaps does not appreciate the difficulty of the original ascent. So in mathematics, it may be found hard to realise the great initial difficulty of making a little step which now seems so natural and obvious, and it may not be surprising if such a step has been found and lost again.

  • Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.

    Summer   Men   Light  
  • I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

    Song   Ascent   Firsts  
  • Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.70, Crown Archetype
  • The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.

    Errors   Heaven   Trying  
    Saint Robert Southwell (1822). “Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears: The Triumphs Over Death; and An Epistle of Comfort”, p.144
  • I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

    Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10
  • On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.

    Sleep   Eye   Night  
    Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48
  • I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

    Science   Animal   Men  
    Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.81, Univ of California Press
  • How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

    Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House
  • The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.

    Spiritual   Clouds   Wind  
    Charles Williams (2016). “The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church”, p.1, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

    Ascent   Tribute   Knows  
    Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”
  • It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.

    Sacrifice   Men   Self  
    Thomas De Quincey (1854). “De Quincey's works”, p.125
  • It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

    Animal   Men   Favors  
  • There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

    Fall   People   Wicked  
    John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.5, Princeton University Press
  • The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.

    Life   Real   Sacrifice  
    Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1997). “Bulletin”
  • What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.

  • Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

    Men   Agents   Ascent  
    John G Lake (2013). “Adventures In God”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
  • I plot my ascent daily.

    Mma   Plot   Ascent  
    Twitter post from Mar 25, 2014
  • What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

    Life   Military   War  
    Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.578, Simon and Schuster
  • For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of ​​transition was always something that at the moment transcends imagination, seemingly absolutely insurmountable, so absurd in terms of the Himalayan conditions that up beautiful.

  • Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

    Country   Peace   Mean  
    Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
  • The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

    Kings   Powerful   Hero  
    Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”
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