Ingfried Hoffmann Quotes & Sayings

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world. — James Clerk Maxwell

Everyone in England ate mutton, but not horse meat, especially as influential people considered horses they had ridden both noble and too close to humans for either clerics or lords to consume. — Brian M. Fagan

Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need. — A.B. Simpson

In order to reflect, think and plan, you must quiet yourself. You can't see your reflection in churning waters. Water must be still to see your reflection. — Karen Hantze Susman

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me. — Beatrice Dalle

Life moves on, the world moves on, the seeds we plant continue to grow. — Michelle Gable

Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told. — Madison Thorne Grey

Had Pederson forgiven the events of — Fredric Stern

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. — Thomas Friedman

Consciousness is already free of everything that remotely resembles a self. — Sam Harris

Why, if we're still breathing and eating, is there such unhappiness? Dissatisfaction is part of the deal of living because simple existence is full of contradictions; we want individuality, to stand out from the crowd, yet we want be part of a tribe. We're driven and busy and yet we want peace. And worst of all, we want things to stay the same despite the fact that everything changes — Ruby Wax

He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth! — Eugene Ionesco

It's the cynics who never get married. — Jay McInerney

Other good reading from Japan includes Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen, with its heroine who finds whatever comfort she can in food; Miyuki — Nancy Pearl

Life doesn't depend on any one opinion, any one custom, or any one century. — Baltasar Gracian