The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier 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
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume 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
“I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides 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
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my… — Jim Webb 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
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind,… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening. — Adi Shankara 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
Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more… — Sendhil Mullainathan 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
I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion,… — Alan Hirsch 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
