Peculiar Quotes

555 Peculiar quotes by 448 unique authors

While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone. — Robert Genn
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling,… — Alain de Botton
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. — Philip Guston
You don't have to be peculiar to find God, — Evelyn Underhill
None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the… — Gary L. Francione
Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you… — W. Ian Thomas
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is… — Carl Sagan
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific… — Hans Richter
Other relaxations are peculiar to certain times, places and stages of life, but the study of letters is the nourishment of our youth, and the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of mystery. They appear… — Paul Carus
Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces. — John Milton
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it… — Henry John Stephen Smith
Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of… — Saint Francis de Sales
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur;… — Orison Swett Marden
It is not merely the brevity by which the haiku isolates a particular group of phenomena from all the rest; nor its suggestiveness, through which… — Reginald Horace Blyth
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon… — Simon Greenleaf
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and… — Jonathan Swift
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey
I love to go out in late September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a… — Galway Kinnell

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