It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types,"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...she could express her soul with that voice, whenver I listened to her I felt my life meant more than mere biology...she… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Looked at objectively, it is clear that the overwhelming majority of civilian deaths resulting from political violence are produced by what should… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The attacks of September 11 were made possible, in part, by the fact that U.S. law enforcement had a bias that 'rich… — Malcolm Nance Copy Share Image
Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer… — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've never understood why women love cats. Cats are independent, they don't listen, they don't come in when you call, they like… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I watched 'Drag Race Thailand' without any subtitles or voiceovers or anything; I don't speak Thai but I do speak drag, so… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
