My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
The magical story is not a microscope but a mirror, not a drop of water but a well. It is not simply… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Look--my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We exist for ourselves, perhaps, and at times we even have a glimmer of who we are, but in the end we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the… — Rose George Copy Share Image
These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply… — William James Copy Share Image
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque." — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion,… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you look at the portion of the GPU available to compute throughout the frame, it varies dramatically from instant to instant.… — Mark Cerny Copy Share Image
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
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