Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"We are afraid of the enormity of the possible"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

Emile M. Cioran

"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round"

Robert Browning, Poet

Robert Browning

"A mind enclosed in language is in prison"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"People get really caught up in their own trips"

Max Cannon, Artist

Max Cannon

"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Normality is death"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological category"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"Only entropy comes easy"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

Anton Chekhov

"All adventure is now reactionary"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original"

Judith Butler, Philosopher

Judith Butler

"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

Martin Heidegger

"People never notice anything"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

J.D. Salinger

"We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?"

Robert Plant, Musician

Robert Plant

"Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

G. H. Hardy

"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness"

Tadao Ando, Architect

Tadao Ando

"I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet"

Eva Green, Actress

Eva Green

"I'm a reflection of the community"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

R. D. Laing

"Man is nature's sole mistake"

William Gilbert, Composer

William Gilbert

"Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

Matthew Arnold

"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

Matthew Arnold

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

"What nourishes me also destroys me"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

Angelina Jolie

"The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply"

John Buchan, Politician

John Buchan

"Life is a horizontal fall"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

Jean Baudrillard

"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

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