Ascent Quotes

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

I plot my ascent daily.

Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

Everything that rises must converge.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.