Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the "true self of man and spirit" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life.
For when men know they are working on what belongs to them, they work with far greater eagerness and diligence. Nay, in a word, they learn to love the land cultivated by their own hands, whence they look not only for food but for some measure of abundance for themselves and their dependents. All can see how much this willing eagerness contributes to an abundance of produce and the wealth of a nation.
For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist?. . . Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.
When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell. . . I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure. ]
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less. "
Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.