Vico C Quotes

#1. I milked my typical persona as a gritty, intellectual sex-positive feminist that men loved to conquer, toss aside, and shove into their conquest collection in the dusty backs of their closets.

Maggie Young

#2. The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

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#3. In every [other] pursuit men without natural aptitude succeed by obstinate study of technique, but who is not a poet by nature can never become one by art.

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#4. Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.

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#5. I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

Mary-Louise Parker

#6. It is true that men themselves made this world of nations ... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

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#7. Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

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#8. A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them.

Napoleon Hill

#9. Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

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#10. Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

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#11. Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

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#12. A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.

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#13. The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

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#14. One truly understands only what one can create.

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James Joyce

#16. Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

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#17. ... rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that
man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.

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#18. IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
AND GETTING BITS STUCK
IN THEIR NOSES.

Jenny Holzer

#19. The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

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#20. People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

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#21. I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

Joe Perry

#22. You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.

Boy George

#23. If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

Randall Jarrell

#24. The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Vladimir Putin

#25. Governments must conform to the nature of the men governed.

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#26. Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

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#27. The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

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#28. VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill.
BILL: Horseshit.

Tracy Letts

#29. Your own exploration therefore has to be personalized; you're doing it for yourself, increasing your own store of particular knowledge, walking your own eccentric version of the city.

Geoff Nicholson

#30. Patrick: America is at war with an Afghan tribe...[?]

David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story.

A.G. Riddle

#31. Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Giambattista Vico