Dialectic Of Enlightenment Quotes & Sayings

Sir, you have now given me my 'cadeau;' I am obliged to you: it is the meed teachers most covet-praise of their pupils' progress. — Charlotte Bronte

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. — James D. Watson

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. — Theodor W. Adorno

Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them. — Kofi Awoonor

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.' — Merlin Mann

New Zealand are the best team in the world - the execution and accuracy of their skills were a lesson in modern rugby. — Josh Lewsey

Gaia has left us wonder wherever we go, if we only open our eyes to it." ~ Atticus — Kevin Hearne

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. — John Loeffler

I love you," I said quickly, watching her as she wrapped her arms around her waist. "I know I'm not good at it, but I'm fucking trying. — Nicole Jacquelyn

Boys might play with swords, but it took a lord to make a marriage pact, knowing what it meant. — George R R Martin

Boys and girls are undeniably different biologically, but socialization exaggerates the differences. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'd like to try different genres: comedy, period drama, rom-com, action. — Nina Dobrev

According to Howard, "this dialectic between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, between the individual and the tribe, was to pervade, and to a large extent shape, the history of Europe throughout the nineteenth century, and of the world the century after that."109 — Steven Pinker

Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically. — Kate Christensen

In the minds of the principals, the history of the marriage was redrafted to have been always doomed, love was recast as delusion. — Ian McEwan