Famous quotes containing the word commence:
“It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.”
—George Berkeley (16851753)
“Now folks, I hereby declare the first church of Tombstone, which aint got no name yet or no preacher either, officially dedicated. Now I dont pretend to be no preacher, but Ive read the Good Book from cover to cover and back again, and I nary found one word agin dancin. So well commence by havin a dad blasted good dance.”
—Samuel G. Engel (19041984)
“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way. But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)