Familiar Quote by Rene Magritte

“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question…

— Bertold Brecht

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

— Mason Cooley

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as…

— William James

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.

— Marina Abramovic

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

— Andy Rooney

The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us,…

— Eric Metaxas

I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still…

— Laura van den Berg

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

— Jane Hirshfield

I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you…

— Ben Howard

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

— Roger Ebert

Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and…

— Alan Palomo