Martin Heidegger Quotes
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
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I'm not a creature of Washington.
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The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.
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It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
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Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
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A climate in which belief may flourish.
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Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
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When youve exhausted all possibilities, remember this you havent.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.
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Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
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There is nothing deeper than to work for a year with the same artist.
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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.
