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William Macneile Dixon Quotes

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

William Macneile Dixon
Pregnancy, Giving, Perspective
William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And that context, astounding even to bodily eyes, is the heaven of stars and the incredible procession of the great galaxies.

William Macneile Dixon
Life, Stars, Eye

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

William Macneile Dixon
Life, Friends, Death
William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

William Macneile Dixon
Stars, Astonishment, Born
William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.

William Macneile Dixon
Heart, Creeps, Feels
William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

William Macneile Dixon
Hate, Vices, Mankind
William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

William Macneile Dixon
Problem, Theme, Solve
William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.

William Macneile Dixon
Confusion, Portraits, Facts

Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.

William Macneile Dixon
Iron, Desire, Reason
William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The human situation”

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

William Macneile Dixon
Truth, Angel, Men

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