"We have to keep company with supposedly bad……" — Thomas Bernhard
"We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death."
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Thomas Bernhard
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35 Quotes by Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard has 35 quotes on this site.
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The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.
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In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for…
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Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original…
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I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I…
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Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write…
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Everyone is a virtuoso on his own instrument, but together they add up to an intolerable cacophony.
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We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist
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Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.
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The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
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Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.
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Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others.…
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Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on…
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More Atrophy Quotes
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
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God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will…
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts,…
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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far…
— Ezra Pound
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...
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The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as…
— Steve Pavlina
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity…
— Coleman Dowell
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