"Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves……" — Gore Vidal

"Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange."

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253 Quotes by Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal has 253 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The…
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is ability to articulate human relationships.
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want…
The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are…
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the…
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no…
Christianity is such a silly religion.
In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately…
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that…

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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our… — Henry David Thoreau
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as… — Bertrand Russell
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible… — Francis Parker Yockey
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction.… — Roald Hoffmann
Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all… — B. H. Liddell Hart
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has… — Martin Heidegger
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution… — Lawrence Durrell
Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and… — Milan Kundera

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