New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
“...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the… — Ruth Dugdall Copy Share Image
“A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
[Carl Gustav] Jung was not right when he said that the unconscious message is always written clearly and so there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
“Beware of my partisanship, my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It was a distortion, a mercenary decision to create this parallel history in order to drive the movie for an American audience,… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us.… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into… — James Toback Copy Share Image
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
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