Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence. — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.” — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments. — Andrew Ferguson Copy Share Image
No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought.… — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The Church in the United States turned a corner about three decades ago, and the idea that we're going back to the… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and… — Howard Martin Copy Share Image
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington,… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power… — Boris Brasol Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as the negative charter for the new anarchy of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair,… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in… — Paul Shepard Copy Share Image
