Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"Civilization is what makes you sick"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

Paul Gauguin

"Imagination creates reality"

Richard Wagner, Composer

Richard Wagner

"Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems, and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots"

Isak Dinesen, Writer

"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will"

Antonio Gramsci, Politician

"The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

Don Van Vliet

"This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top"

David Lynch, Director

"No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets"

Gloria Stuart, Actress

"Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The flesh is the surface of the unknown"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Hell is other people"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

Jean-Paul Sartre

"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

C. Wright Mills

"I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel"

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, Businessman

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being"

James Joyce, Novelist

James Joyce

"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Sometimes, I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality?"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

Giovanni Morassutti

"Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself, and our society is absolutely saturated with drama"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"A thinking woman sleeps with monsters"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see"

Rene Magritte, Artist

Rene Magritte

"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

Ulrich Beck

"I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"I shut my eyes in order to see"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

Paul Gauguin

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