"Because I have become such a solitary, and……" — Saul Bellow
"Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings, incapable of finding a suitable language and despairing at the impossibility of composing messages in a playable key--as if I no longer understood the codes used by the estimable people who wanted to hear from me and would have so much to reply if only the impediments were taken away."
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215 Quotes by Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow has 215 quotes on this site.
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A man is only as good as what he loves.
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we…
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Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
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Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the…
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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More Aristotelian Quotes
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...they have never affirm'd any thing, concerning the Cause, till the Trial was past: whereas, to do it before, is…
— Thomas Sprat
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source…
— Mortimer Adler
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For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines --…
— Umberto Eco
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Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not…
— David Bentley Hart
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Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.
— David Berlinski
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My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic…
— Antony Flew
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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications…
— Kenny Smith
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Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object…
— Rene Thom
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this…
— Fredric Jameson
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The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
— Alfred Korzybski
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Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What’s…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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