Psychology Quote by Vernor Vinge Download Open image ““[He] was an insect wandering in the cathedral his mind had become.”” — Vernor Vinge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Psychology
“He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings, saints and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He fluttered his eyelids, so that they were like pale, trapped moths in his sockets.” — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“He took a mental picture of this moment’s happy scene to carry with him into the darkness of that dreadful place where he had… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
“He was looking me over in that weird, intense way he had, like I was a rare species of beetle and he was a… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
“I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.” — Roger Deakin Copy Share Image
“It was then that I could feel that the moths in him, with their wings so paper-thin, will never be near enough to the… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that… — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.” — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“He thought of himself not as something heavy that left tracks behind it, but if anything, as a speck upon the surface of an… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Not that it matters, when you dream, there's no outside or in. Your mind is an unimaginable bloom. A willow catkin as big as… — Rich Shapero Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams… — Dale Pendell Copy Share Image
