Pretends Quotes

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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it… — Saul Bellow
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. — H. L. Mencken
Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer… — Gregg Easterbrook
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. — Alistair Cooke
Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. — Charlotte Gray
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him.… — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush… — H. L. Mencken
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a… — David Hume
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much. — Eckhart Tolle
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are… — Eckhart Tolle
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans. — Rudyard Kipling
An ad that pretends to be art is â€“ at absolute best â€“ like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something… — David Foster
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal. — Robert Breault
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey
He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches… — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is… — William Lane Craig
When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, theyâ€™re doing so for purely selfish reasons. Itâ€™s… — Greg Gutfeld
Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't… — Laurence Overmire

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