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Alfred R. Orage
(22 Jan 1873 - 6 Nov 1934)
English teacher, lecturer and writer who was editor of the enormously influential journal, New Age (1907-1922). He contributed many essays surveying the significant literary, psychological, political, and spiritual trends of the early 20th century.
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Science Quotes by Alfred R. Orage (23 quotes)
Belief is a luxury—only those who have real knowledge have a right to believe; otherwise belief is merely plausible opinion.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 55.
Consciousness is an electrical phenomenon which arises from a state of being which we can feel.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 54.
God is the “I” of the universe.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 52.
God is the psyche of the universe.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 54.
Nature is genius without common sense.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
Nature is the objective creditor of every living being.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
Nature, from one aspect, is the wicked step-mother of the fairy tales, beguiling us and using us for her own purposes—the evolution of substances.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 56.
Objective conscience is the function of a normal being; the representative of God in the essence. Buried so deeply that it remains relatively indestructible.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 52.
Objective Science is that which has as its conscious purpose the investigating of the meaning and aim of existence.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
Ordinary knowledge is awareness of external facts; ordinary belief, conviction on inadequate grounds.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
Ordinary scientist: one who possesses an assortment of information not verified by personal experience, and which is often disproved by another “scientist”.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
Pondering is answering questions from essence and answering them practically. One-third of one's time should be spent in pondering.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 50.
Pondering is intellectual assimilation.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 50.
Science is occupied with “how” not “why”.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
Science sees everything mechanically, through part of the moving-instinctive centre. It has no answer to human needs in a crisis.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
Scientists are engaged in anatomizing the corpse of the universe.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
The emotional centre is the dynamo of our whole life.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 50.
The reason of ordinary man is the reason of knowledge. The reason of normal man is the reason of understanding. Knowledge is temporary, can be changed. Understanding is permanent—unchangeable.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 52.
Time is a perpetual perishing.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 55.
To discover not more and more things but the truth or real relation of things is what distinguishes men from the animals.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 57.
To know ourselves is to know the universe.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 58.
True artists are the antennae of nature.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 59.
Unless we can “remember” ourselves, we are completely mechanical. Self-observation is possible only through self-remembering. These are the first steps in self-consciousness.
— Alfred R. Orage
In On Love & Psychological Exercises: With Some Aphorisms & Other Essays (1998), 54.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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