Indiscernibility Of Identicals Quotes & Sayings

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance ... like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying. — Ken Kesey

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day. — Julie Bowen

We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead

Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again. — Debasish Mridha

Adversity is awakening of spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is clear enough that not every something can be elevated to the rank of a thing - otherwise everything and everyone would be speaking once more, and the chatter would spread from humans to things. Rilke privileges two categories of 'entities' [Seienden), to express it in the papery diction of philosophy, that are eligible for the lofty task of acting as message-things - artifices and living creatures - with the latter gaining their particular quality from the former, as if animals were being's highest works of art before humans. Inherent to both is a message energy that does not activate itself, but requires the poet as a decoder and messenger. — Peter Sloterdijk

why prefer a god who wants you to torture yourself instead of worshipping Eostre who wants you to take a girl into the woods and make babies? — Bernard Cornwell

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future. — Sukarno

Frankly, I don't like publicity. — Randolph Scott

Her choices, all.
Sentimental choices, things she remembered.
I remembered them too. — Joan Didion

The system manufactures students who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they're doing but with no idea why they're doing it. In — William Deresiewicz