Categories Quotes

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In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with… — Epictetus
Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a… — Thomas Merton
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no different categories of love. There isn't one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and another between friends.… — Marianne Williamson
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more… — Judith Butler
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. — Ned Rorem
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The… — Robert M. Pirsig
We don't need to complicate all the "reasons" behind our emotions. It's much simpler than that. Two categories .. good feelings, bad feelings. — Rhonda Byrne
Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does… — Sogyal Rinpoche
So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and… — Bruno Schulz
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz
I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the… — Jane Lindskold
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out… — E. M. Forster
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical… — Giorgio Agamben
Regarding R. H. Blyth: The first book in English based on the saijiki is R. H. Blyth's Haiku, published in four volumes from 1949 to… — Reginald Horace Blyth
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is… — Edward Sapir
The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. — Seth Godin
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman — Christian Louboutin
Independence is a state of mind. Independence is spirit without category. — Oliver Stone

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