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Thought Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to…
- In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has…
- But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable.…
- Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
- Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
- If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that…
- Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
- She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and…
- To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do…
- Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
More Thought Quotes
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold