Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit, and that man is a social creature"

Norman McLaren, Artist

"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul"

Mary MacLane, Writer

"It's true, I don't like the real world"

Richard Foreman, Playwright

"Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television"

Val Kilmer, Actor

"Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something"

Joshua Homme, Musician

"It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things"

Claude Chabrol, Director

"Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind"

John Shirley, Author

"I think of my body as a side effect of my mind"

Carrie Fisher, Actress

"I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know"

Dario Argento, Director

"It's an odd world"

Timothy Spall, Actor

"When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do"

Daniel Clowes, Author

"We lament the speed of our society, and the lack of depth, and the nature of disposable information"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process"

Larry Harvey, Celebrity

"Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate"

Leonhard Euler, Mathematician

"The fabric of existence weaves itself whole"

Charles Ives, Composer

"The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature"

Jerry Rubin, Activist

"Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display"

Jerry Rubin, Activist

"Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it"

Jeff Hawkins, Inventor

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now"

Thomas Pynchon, Writer

"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export"

Robert Stone, Novelist

"Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me"

Liv Tyler, Actress

"I was not typical. Whatever typical or normal is, I was somehow separated and different"

John C. Hawkes, Novelist

"These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness"

Dave Sim, Cartoonist

"The only time a man thinks is when he's alone"

Jose Bergaman, Writer

"I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream"

Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician

"My personality doesn't interest me"

Andrei A. Gromyko, Politician

"I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"Being is like pretending"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"I'm full of contradictions"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images"

James Merrill, Poet

"And I know when I was younger, and still I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel"

Andrew McCarthy, Actor

"What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?"

Marquis De Custine, Author

"New York is the great stone desert"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society, which are crystallized into a system of social organization"

Earl Browder, Activist

"The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

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