Quotes about Something
Because humans are capable of knowing, the first cause that produced them must have a mind. Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause must have a will. And so on. Philosopher Étienne Gilson captures the argument neatly: because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must be also a Someone.
- Nancy Pearcey
Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
- John 4:31
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
- Donald Justice
The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul
- Milan Kundera
Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste-- his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.
- Herman Melville
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
- St. Jerome
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
- Henri Nouwen
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.
- Nancy Pearcey
There is not a single human being who does not despair at least a little, in whose innermost being there does not dwell an uneasiness, an unquiet, a discordance, an anxiety in the face of an unknown something.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
- Samuel Johnson
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn
- Bishop TD Jakes
God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist
- Brigham Young