But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We… — Walker Percy Doctor Copy Share Image
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. — Walker Percy Chance Copy Share Image
“A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.” — Walker Percy Genius Copy Share Image
“What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. — Walker Percy Connections Copy Share Image
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable. — Walker Percy Ambition Copy Share Image
“I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and… — Walker Percy Believe in god Copy Share Image
“the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.” — Walker Percy Consciousness Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the… — Walker Percy Happiness Copy Share Image
“he believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves… — Walker Percy Death Copy Share Image
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long… — Walker Percy Affair Copy Share Image
Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes."… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a… — Walker Percy Artist Copy Share Image
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“i had spent four years propped on the front porch of the fraternity house, bemused and dreaming, watching the sun shine through… — Walker Percy Finding myself Copy Share Image
“ Thought Experiment : Imagine that you are Johnny Carson and find yourself caught in an intolerable one-on-one conversation at a cocktail… — Walker Percy Beverly hills Copy Share Image
“Why is it that the look of another person looking at you is different from everything else in the Cosmos? That is… — Walker Percy Eyes Copy Share Image
“All arguments between the traditional scientific view of man as organism, a locus of needs and drives, and a Christian view of… — Walker Percy Science Copy Share Image
“School is disappointing. If science is exciting and art is exhilarating, the schools and universities have achieved the not inconsiderable feat of… — Walker Percy Art Copy Share Image
“But if the saleslady means what she says—and since you have gone through any number of such styles in the past— then… — Walker Percy Fashion Copy Share Image
“The salvation of art derives in the best of modern times from a celebration of the triumph of the autonomous self—as in… — Walker Percy Art Copy Share Image
“Yes, interest! The worm of interest. Are you surprised? No? Yes? One conclusion I have reached here after a year in my… — Walker Percy Books Copy Share Image
“The happiness of the South was very formidable. It was an almost invincible happiness. It defied you to call it anything else.… — Walker Percy Happiness Copy Share Image
“All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as… — Walker Percy Life Copy Share Image
“People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in… — Walker Percy Life Copy Share Image
“You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the… — Walker Percy Confusion Copy Share Image
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog… — Walker Percy Bored Copy Share Image
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in… — Walker Percy America Copy Share Image
“Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“…With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do… — Walker Percy Existence Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Age Copy Share Image
“I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness,… — Walker Percy Cosmos Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite… — Walker Percy Action Copy Share Image
“My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you… — Walker Percy Faith Copy Share Image
I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When… — Walker Percy Business Copy Share Image
![“[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.” quote by Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f1/walker-percy-1958_action_in-art-you-are-telling-the-reader-or-the_116938.jpg)
