All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.
Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth.
The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.
This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.
Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
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Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer,. . would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process.
All beauty contains darkness.
The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.
Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.