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277 quotes by 254 authors

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which… — Gene Wolfe
All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier,… — John Knowles
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara… — Haruki Murakami
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost totalâ€¦ Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He… — Erich Fromm
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned to the wisdom… — John O'Donohue
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature. — Arundhati Roy
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first… — Arundhati Roy
Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and… — Barbara Kingsolver
Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models… — Warren Buffett
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. — Margaret Atwood
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had… — Diane Setterfield
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age… — Tony Kushner
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;… — Salman Rushdie
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By… — Donald Miller
The human mind delights in finding patternâ€”so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought… — Stephen Jay Gould
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity… — Bell Hooks
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed… — Sadegh Hedayat

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