Equivocal Quotes

#1. But it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Thomas Browne

#3. From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

R.D. Laing

#4. First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

William Of Ockham

#5. Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.

Michel Leiris

#6. There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Thomas Mann

#7. In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

R.D. Laing

#8. A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Italo Calvino

#9. It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Margaret Oliphant

#10. Double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable).

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don't know.

Ellen Willis

#12. Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Carlos Fuentes

#13. Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. But aunties are equivocal figures of affection, wicked and unreliable, pretending love only so long as they are short of love themselves, and then off.

Howard Jacobson

#15. Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

George W. Bush

#16. This question depends upon the definition of the word, Nature, than which there is none more ambiguous and equivocal.

David Hume

#17. Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

Masashi Kishimoto

#18. When reason returned with the morning - when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch - I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse, for the crime of which I had been guilty; but it was, at best, a feeble and equivocal feeling, and the soul remained untouched.

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

George Orwell

#20. If you can't say something positive about humanity, then say something equivocal.

Thomas Ligotti

#21. The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always.

Jacques Derrida

#22. Oh for women at sea to obviate the eternal crosscat-harpings,' he said to himself, 'to do away with the grumlinfuttocks, and to inject a little civilization, even of an equivocal nature, even at the risk of moral deviation.

Patrick O'Brian

#23. Because he loves only as man, not as human being, there is in his sexual feelings something narrow, seemingly wild, malicious, temporal, finite, which weakens his art and makes it equivocal and dubious.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#24. Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Charles Colson

#25. To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.

Bill Mills

#26. [N]ot only is the most marvellous event in this book collaborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages.

Herman Melville

#27. If you're anything like me, I feel sorry for your friends and family.

Gilbert Gottfried

#28. I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.

Keith Green

#29. Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato

#30. Behind the panic: financial warfare over future of global bank power

F. William Engdahl

#31. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

J.D. Salinger

#32. I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.

Christopher Dodd

#33. When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad.

Janette Barber

#34. Our perception of reality has less to do with what's happening out there, and more to do with what's happening inside our brain. Your

David Eagleman

#35. A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

Katie Salen

#36. Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

Mike Rogers