Mauthner Quotes

#1. I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. I think there's something charming about incorporating summer clothes into winter, like pairing a summery skirt with a massive sweater. I'm also really into layering during the winter!

Debby Ryan

#4. One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.

Michael Lewis

#5. I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

Kelli Berglund

#6. Life and all that is in it
is a gift from the infinite mind;
And the only way that life can go wrong
is by the limited finite mind.

Eric Foley Saucier

#7. Dog sighs are some form of distilled truth. What does he know? What do dogs know? Ed sighs like he knows the truth about me and he loves me anyway.

Charles Yu

#8. The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.

Hu Shih

#9. Humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

Neale Donald Walsch

#10. My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Amber Tamblyn

#11. Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

William Wordsworth

#12. I'm not that. You of all people should know that. You should know that I would only destroy those good things about her.
"Or maybe you're just scared," she says.

Jason Myers

#13. It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo.7 To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.

Marya Hornbacher

#14. I have unqualified admiration for Brad Pitt.

Peter O'Toole

#15. The loss is transformative, in good ways and bad, a tangle of change that cannot be threaded into the usual narrative spools ... It's not an emergence from the cocoon, but a tree growing around an obstruction.

Meghan O'Rourke