As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.
This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.
The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.
True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.
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.
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.
That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution. . . "The Ascent of Man.
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.
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.
