Phenomenon Quotes

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  If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?

  Bette Midler

  Love, Funny, Hilarious

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2014

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Perfect, Heaven

  "The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory". Book by Milton Friedman, June 1, 1970.

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• The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Lying, Desire

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• The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Karma, Past

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2374, Manonmani Publishers

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

  Milton Friedman

  Economics, Economist, Monetary Policy

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

  Hannah Arendt

  People, Culture, World

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.103, University of Chicago Press

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• Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Spring, Simple, Miracle

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• Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Nature, Reflection

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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• Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

  Milton Friedman

  Investing, Output, Rapids

  Milton Friedman (1994). “Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

  Erich Fromm

  Spiritual, Envy, Feelings

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge

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• Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

  Emile Durkheim

  Suicide, Suicidal, Giving

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.

  Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  Happy, Heart, Science

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• Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

  Joseph Fourier

  Math, Science, Secret

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• The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

  Brian McGinn

  People, Stories, World

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Philosophy, Mistake

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.139, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupid, Memorable, Ironic

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.

  Corrado Balducci

  Country, Real, Receiving

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• The phenomenon of HIV criminalization is so much more massive than people understand.

  Sean Strub

  People, Hiv, Massive

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

  Cleve Jones

  Artist, Cities, White

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Years, Six Year Olds

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• [CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under Zia and taking away the long standing rights of people in the tribal areas [who were left largely alone].

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Roots, Long

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America's economy in the Rust Belt, the desire to see better days for the country. That's all great stuff. Some of that stuff is Bernie Sanders stuff. The problem is that it's marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.

  Van Jones

  Country, Xenophobia, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Culture, Demand, Firsts

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, June, Media

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• If the rewiring of the brain that yielded recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions took place in an individual, not a group (and there seems to be no coherent alternative), then interaction must have been a later phenomenon.

  Noam Chomsky

  Expression, Brain, Groups

  Source: libcom.org

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