Philosophy of Mind Quote by Kenneth Calhoun Download Open image ““Cities were the flashpoint of consciousness, distant from suburban somnolence.”” — Kenneth Calhoun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy of Mind
“This city had been a city for two thousand years, and I could feel that with every step I took. bits of all that… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
“in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“How cold and foreign this city seemed, that even death could pass unnoticed.” — Kristen Simmons Copy Share Image
“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas, gossips and… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
“I shook my head. "it's not about living in a city." It wasn't. Back then, it wasn't just getting away. It was about not… — Kat Rosenfield Copy Share Image
“The water moved under her, a black flow of melted glass. The thick electric wash of cricketsong, swarming particles of noise. Soon the desert… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“The Moon was just a sickle of light, hanging in the sky among a wild spray of stars. All that cosmic luminance, traveling for… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“There are spaces between the events we see where things get past us. Magicians know this too, with their sleight of hand tricks. If… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Then it was this tribe of cops themselves who shot out the surveillance cameras and aisle mirrors before snorting crushed pills off the floor… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“In dreams lie forgotten lifetimes of joy and torment, leaving only the shadow of memory.” — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“There is a constant pressure, surging and eroding away the walls we have erected over the millenia by migrating the contents of our dreams… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“If you stay awake long enough, you have dreams whether you're sleeping or not, hallucinations. It's where we really live, and when we're awake,… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“She saw it happening like stars going out, one by one. Her online friends dropping off and never returning. Everything was shutting down, going… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“The walls were lined with shelves, and she insulated their nest with volumes collected over the years. Their decor was the many colorful spines.” — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's where it started and they brought it back from the desert, some kind of contagious psychic wound, guilt based. Maybe it's the… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“People were her greatest fear, and in the simple math of her reasoning, there were more here, around them, going slowly insane.” — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
