Love and action always imply a failure, but this failure must not keep us from loving and acting. For we have not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne — John Wayne Copy Share Image
Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said,… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
If I am truly honest, I have to acknowledge that the demands I am so convinced are coming from the outer world… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“A need for precision and perfection has always been an enemy of art, which is about coloring outside the lines. It is… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
