Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?Clearly, either in the Soul alone,… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near,… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“I have the honour to be quite of your Lordship's opinion," said Mr. Lovel, looking maliciously at Mrs. Selwyn, "for I have… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions.… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Christian faith is exclusivistic. Christian faith lays claim upon our lives. The sanctity of life, what we do with a life, is… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
That's very indicative to me of one of the things that really creates an aversion for me about having a child -… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself anylonger for you, or you. If you can love… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
