Academic Quote by Peter Gay

“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.”

— Lionel Shriver

“The trouble with your ideals is that if you live up to all of them, you become impossible to live with.”

— Anthony de Mello

“The way we live has less to do with individual choices and more to do with the general bent of our society than many…

— David Suzuki

“... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to be different…

— Violette Nakhjavani

“life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.”

— Peter L. Bernstein

“Do not compare your life to others. You cannot imagine how everyone is drowning in a multitude of complexities that you would prefer not…

— Ramzi Najjar

“Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.”

— H. Norman Wright

“People have to live with things they don't want to live with all the time, but—how?”

— Courtney Summers

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough”

— Carlos Luiz Zafon

“But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do…

— Richard Ford

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should live their lives, but none about their own.”

— Itayi Garande

“Few things are more dangerous to an egalitarian ideal than the concept of a chosen people.”

— Erika Johansen