Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"What feeds me destroys me"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place, for where we are is hell, and where hell is there must we ever be"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first"

Paul Klee, Artist

Paul Klee

"Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"The world used us as an excuse to go mad"

George Harrison, Musician

George Harrison

"You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

Ulrich Beck

"That was the first major social sciences conference, at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences, or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

Ulrich Beck

"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression"

Eugene Wigner, Physicist

"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing"

Harold Ramis, Actor

Harold Ramis

"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge"

Rebecca West, Author

"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere"

Rebecca West, Author

"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

Arthur Erickson

"This is the curse of our age,, Even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom"

Stendhal, Writer

"The massive bulk of the Earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

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