To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking. — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making… — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When we are convinced of some great truths, and feel our convictions keenly, we must not fear to express it, although others… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly,… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and… — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority,… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
The care and concern of one human being for another is a peculiar 'commodity.' It can't be stockpiled. It becomes degraded through… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Because we weren’t like other people. We were peculiar.” “Peculiar how?” “Oh, all sorts of ways,” he said. “There was a girl… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I… — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance.… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
