Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction!"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"The joke of our time is the suicide of intention"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"If across the Atlantic, the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"He who integrates is lost"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

Ansel Adams

"Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"In the twilight, it was a vision of power"

Upton Sinclair, Author

Upton Sinclair

"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

"Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"The more I see of democracy, the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

Anton Chekhov

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

Jules Renard

"The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities"

Judith Butler, Philosopher

Judith Butler

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

Erma Bombeck

"What can be shown, cannot be said"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"There is no there there"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike? I think so"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

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