You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
I don't believe terror and horror are just vicarious pleasures. I think it routes itself in your mind. It can affect your… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Rationally considered, nothing can be more absurd than the baptism of infants under any circumstances. No statement, no matter by whom it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance.… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.” — Ashok Kallarakkal Copy Share Image
This has increased with the tremendous technological advances in communications. We have a vast new world of images brought into our sitting… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
