Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

"I'm always collecting emotions for future reference"

Harlan Howard, Musician

"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things"

Ted Shawn, Dancer

"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility"

Malcolm Gladwell, Author

"I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going"

Julia Stiles, Actress

"Things explain each other, not themselves"

George Oppen, Poet

"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history"

Russell Hoban, Novelist

"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets"

Sun Ra, Musician

"Nobody helps anybody"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"Man is a substance clad in shadows"

John Sterling, Author

"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?"

Russell Hoban, Novelist

"Some things are impossible"

Alex Van Halen, Musician

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category"

Sun Ra, Musician

"I'm in a constant process of thinking about things"

Richard Brautigan, Writer

"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere"

Ray Davies, Musician

"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out"

Diana Krall, Musician

"I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can, when I'm lucky"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"Please, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"The forms of my awareness are richer than yours"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self"

Wavy Gravy, Activist

"It's the irrational things that interest me"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character"

Julie Benz, Actress

"My perspective is a lil different 'cus I'm from Manhattan"

Kool Moe Dee, Musician

"The core of my personality consists of many selves"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?"

Haniel Long, Author

"The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence"

Peter Gay, Historian

"People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself"

Peter Gay, Historian

"The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness"

John Clayton, Writer

"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched"

George Gissing, Novelist

"I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more"

Jude Law, Actor

"I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that"

Fay Vincent, Lawyer

"To describe and explain my ideas is to lose them"

Marino Marini, Sculptor

"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years"

Sonny Rollins, Musician

"It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again"

Christopher Knight, Actor

"We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material"

J. T. Walsh, Actor

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