True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy,… — Katherine Losse Copy Share Image
There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window,… — Moby Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a… — R.R. Hood Copy Share Image
Frankly, I see a lot of little girls dressed in ways I think are not very appropriate. It's too much too soon,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to… — Aleister Crowley 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
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
