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Wyndham Lewis has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.
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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable…
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When we say 'science' we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we…
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman,…
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would…
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Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire…
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or…
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Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
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But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin…
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What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of…
— Jimmy Cannon
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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would…
— John Calvin
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
— Ernest Renan
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
— Emile Durkheim
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What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.
— Robert Breault
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
— Jeri Ryan
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his…
— Samuel Johnson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he…
— Ayn Rand
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