Mystification Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists… — James R Newman
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is… — Eugene Ionesco
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove… — Elwyn Brooks White
Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so… — Colin Ward
The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually… — Noam Chomsky
Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out. — Leonard Roy Frank
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape… — Elwyn Brooks White
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt… — Marlene Dumas
Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all. — Julian Barnes
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger
I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will… — U.G. Krishnamurti

Who Wrote These Mystification Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Mystification Quotes as follows: