Janus Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but… — Charles Lamb
He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise… — John Dryden
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is… — Honore de Balzac
Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against… — George Gilder
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living… — Ray Bradbury
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton. — Gordon Korman
Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in… — Rick Riordan
Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the… — Stanley H Cath
The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better… — Peter Sotos

Who Wrote These Janus Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Janus Quotes as follows: