Quotes About Atavism

#1. What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good - the atavism of an older ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

Gore Vidal

#3. Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature. He was not immoral, but merely unmoral. As

Jack London

#5. Catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves ... I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

Will Self

#6. Have you ever seen a woman canter over the hills in the twilight? Scandal sheets are no match for atavism.

Cees Nooteboom

#7. That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. How did I get so lost? Mother,

Janet Fitch

#9. Your gentle eyes escape to the moon;
Shooting stars in the rain blown by the wind.I have to learn to swim in my tears.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#10. Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?

Lawrence Auster

#11. This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#12. I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.

Jack Tatum

#13. He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. It's important, when going after a goal, to never lose sight of the integrity of the journey.

Andy Garcia

#15. If you tried to solve every problem yourself, you ended by solving none.

Robert Jordan

#16. This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.

Frank Iero

#17. Every once in a while, large cities have narrow streets, silent passageways that allow your footsteps to echo in the stillness of the night, and it seems like everything is going back to the way it was, when there were only a few of us and we all knew each other and greeted each other on the street.

Jaume Cabre

#18. Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

Charles Koch

#19. I have fears, but I do not fear anything or anybody on the court.

Russell Westbrook

#20. Socrates: "The corruption of the best things are the worst things." Or, "The best, when corrupted, become the worst." As one of your English poets has said, "Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Peter Kreeft

#21. Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

George C. Wallace

#22. All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich