Best Fragmentary Quotes

44 Fragmentary quotes by 39 unique authors

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small… — Helena Rubinstein
Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as… — David Dark
A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought… — Hans Hofmann
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry,… — Roger Scruton
My reason for writing stories is to give myself the satisfaction of visualising more clearly and detailedly and stably the vague, elusive, fragmentary impressions of… — H P Lovecraft
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication… — Jaron Lanier
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Our lives are more like fragmentary dreams than the enactments of conscious selves. We control very little of what we most care about; many of… — John Gray
I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary… — Sylvia Plath
We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us… — Haruki Murakami
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth,… — Jean Baudrillard
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. — Sarah Churchwell
I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the… — Todd Rundgren
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the… — George Oppen
The distortions of society today derive from a confusion of wisdom, which is holistic, and knowledge, which is fragmentary; and an inability to distinguish genuine… — Senoraroy
On a day of burial there is no perspectivefor space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury… — Ritu Ghatourey

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