Contemporary Quotes · Page 61

It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones,…

— William James

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

— Stuart Pearson Wright

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think…

— David Dinkins

If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate…

— Wolfgang Kohler

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

— Frederick Wiseman

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

— Rose Tremain

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that…

— Anonymous

Barack Obama is an elegant and literate man with a cosmopolitan sense of the world. He is widely read in philosophy, literature,…

— Teju Cole

I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the…

— Ryan Newman

“You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in…

— Shannon MacLeod

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We can certainly see contemporary examples of people who radically change. As long you believe your spouse will never change and you…

— Gary Chapman

It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons.…

— Paul Virilio

“The house was the color of baby vomit.”

— Pixie Lynn Whitfield

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

— Erez Lieberman Aiden

Contemporary art is based on that an artist is supposed to go into art history in the same way as an art…

— Odd Nerdrum

The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"

— Tullian Tchividjian

All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving…

— Vladimir Lenin

“I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on…

— Jandy Nelson

“Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.”

— Carla H Krueger

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the…

— Robert Morris

My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and…

— Sara Zarr

There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds…

— Caroline Shaw