Inversion Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What… — Kenneth Goldsmith
Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority. — Emmanuel Levinas
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves… — Clay Shirky
How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny,… — Will Self
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. — Irving Babbitt
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order… — Wilhelm Ostwald
By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the… — Maximus the Confessor
All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion. — Jim Blinn
I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed… — Carl Hiaasen
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt… — Susan Orlean
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. — Blaise Pascal
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens… — Ayn Rand
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic… — Michel Foucault
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively… — Wilhelm Ostwald
'We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the Government is free to do anything it pleases, while citizens may… — Andrew Guzaldo
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite. — Joel Hodgson

Who Wrote These Inversion Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Inversion Quotes as follows: