“The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. — Margaret Clarkson Copy Share Image
“Closing the last chapter of our personal history and taking the first step on the Journey will come with the recognition of… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
“Why you have such bourgeois preoccupation with all personal history?' 'Because it's important... it defines... it helps us understand... because we can… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
“Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what… — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Thats simple, says the old man. They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life… — Br0k3n_h3Art Copy Share Image
I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I always find it kind of more interesting when people ask questions like, "What were you like as a kid?" Or just… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself.… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill.… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“What drew him back was something altogether more personal, to a history where, in the pain and longing of adolescence, he was… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I… — Isabel Wolff Copy Share Image
“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We only suffer when we falsely identify with the objects that arise in our awareness, rather than with the awareness itself—when we… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“In just a few weeks, Soldier 13 became aware of a mutation in the colors of his consciousness. As the theoretical classes… — Leonardo Padura Fuentes Copy Share Image
“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“A moment ago, when he entered this human aviary, the pictures, modestly enclosed in four wooden mouldings, remained flat and silent before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The experiment changed Sally’s life. In the following days she realised she has been through a ‘near-spiritual experience…what defined the experience was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I wish I'd been accepted sooner and better. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“The experience of stress has three components. The first is the event, physical or emotional, that the organism interprets as threatening. This… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There had been an uprising by the Bondelswaartz in 1922, and general turmoil in the country. His radio experiments interrupted, he sought… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“interview from Ross E. Cheit about The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children (Oxford University Press, February 2014).… — Ross Cheit Copy Share Image
“In order to answer the question “Who am I?”, in order to go back to before the beginning within your own experience,… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
