No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon. — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken… — Vincent Paronnaud Copy Share Image
I understand why people achieve a level of fame and disappear, I never understood it before, but it's an attractive prospect to… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
A sense of community has always been important to me. I understood very early that I could not grow as an artist… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
I used to wonder how anyone could treat a fellow human as God. I never understood why they would do this. — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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