Alienation Quote by Will Cuppy Download Open image “A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.” — Will Cuppy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alienation Civilization Hermits Persons
A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Even if the hermits do not appear to benefit other beings with their presence or teachings, still they are enormously inspiring to many. Perhaps,… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“In eighteenth-century England, a fad swept the upper class. Several families felt their estate needed a hermit, and advertisements were placed in newspapers for… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Being human means having doubts and yet still continuing on your path. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Hatshepsut has been called the first great woman of history. She simply appointed herself King of Egypt and that was all there was to… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder described a Whale called "Balaena or Whirlpool, which is so long and broad as to take up more in length… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Even as a child back in Indiana, whenever I took a Butterbelly off the hook I used to ask myself, "Does this fish think?"… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“All modern men are descended from wormlike creatures, but it shows more on some people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but all the… — Arjum Hasan Copy Share Image
“If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.” — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall'… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image
“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest playlists and… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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