We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.
One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One, Who sees the end from the beginning: He shall unravel all.
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
Don't let something you don't fully understand unravel everything you do know.
What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.
It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.
Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.
The rationality of our universe is best suggested by the fact that we can discover more about it from any starting point, as if it were a fabric that will unravel from any thread.
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.
You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
I will never unravel the mystery of how a script gets into the hands of certain people.
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option.
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.
I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution.
Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.
If there is such a thing as spiritual materialism, it is displayed in the urge to possess the mountains rather than to unravel and accept their mysteries.
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.
I think in circles; I speak in circles. I unravel my thoughts that way.
The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.
There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.
I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.
The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.
As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel.
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.
The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.
The origin and the causes of disease are far too recondite for the human mind to unravel them.
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
I dont fully understand my wifes emotions - and Im supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?
The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.
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