"It is so characteristic, that just when the……" — Ludwig Wittgenstein
"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."
More Characteristic Quotes
- The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. — Emma Bonino
- There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett
- Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Lord Chesterfield
- The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves… — Emile M. Cioran
- Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. — Kingsley Amis
- The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of… — Hannah Arendt
- Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and… — Hu Jintao
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
- Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. — C.S. Lewis