In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.
I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their 'luck' arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.
Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you
Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself.
Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.
Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.
'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.
Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.
The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.
God's truth tells us the truth about ourselves, but His grace forgives us for the truth He reveals.
Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.
What you risk reveals what you value.
The Lord whose oracle is at Delphi neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.