Distinctness Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with… — James Madison
• Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time,… — Eugene Dubois
• As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another… — Benjamin Cardozo
• The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self… — Eric Hoffer
• The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to… — Eric Hoffer
• What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet… — George Eliot
• I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with… — Edgar Allan Poe
• We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai. — F. Sionil Jose

Who Wrote These Distinctness Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Distinctness Quotes as follows:

• 2 Distinctness Quotes by Eric Hoffer
• 1 Distinctness Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 1 Distinctness Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
• 1 Distinctness Quote by F. Sionil Jose
• 1 Distinctness Quote by James Madison
• 1 Distinctness Quote by Eugene Dubois
• 1 Distinctness Quote by Benjamin Cardozo
• 1 Distinctness Quote by George Eliot