"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson

More Aversion Quotes

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• To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
• The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment… — Walter Benjamin
• Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emile M. Cioran
• I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark
• Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. — Hillary Clinton
• Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply… — John Dewey
• All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for… — Eckhart Tolle
• 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in… — George Santayana
• Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. — Joseph Addison
• I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families… — George Washington
• What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good… — Sogyal Rinpoche

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