Circumlocution Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and…

— Thomas Mann

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”

— Andrew M. Davis

“A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.…

— Thomas Mann

“There are narrow windows for certain beginnings. Multiple strands of personal histories, psychologies, emotions that intersect once only, and then never again.”

— Owen Sheers

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

“I knew too well the nature of life's distractions and enticements-how the piecemeal progress of our hopes and ambitions commands our undivided attention, reshaping…

— Amor Towles

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

— Leon Edel

“Discovering the history of an individual saves you a lot of time, energy, money, and many more towards your own goal(s) in life. Later,…

— Isaac Nash

“At various points in our lives, or on a quest, for reasons that often remain obscure , we are driven to make decisions which…

— Anonymous

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized…

— Charles Duhigg

“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The meaning of life can best be simplified as gratifying a personalized set of instincts.”

— Eric Hirzel