African Spir Quotes

Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run; all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

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• Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Future
  • Disappear
  • Cataclysm

• I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Believe
  • Try
  • Disappear

• If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Movement
  • Disappear

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Lost
  • Israel
  • Disappear

• Disappear here.

  

  Bret Easton Ellis
  • Here
  • Disappear

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Careers

• I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Fear
  • Doubt
  • Contradiction

• come to realise that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts. You can watch as they appear in your mind, seemingly from thin air, and watch again as they disappear, like a soap bubble bursting. You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Mind
  • Understanding
  • Air

• I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • High

• Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

  

  Mary Astor
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Deep

• Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer, but only that shell of a person which is seen by other people - what an airless, shallow, bald, prominent world it becomes! A world not to be lived in. As we face each other in omnibuses and underground railways we are looking into the mirror that accounts for the vagueness, the gleam of glassiness, in our eyes.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • People
  • World
  • Eye

• More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Conscience
  • Philosophers
  • Contradiction

• All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

  

  William James
  • Happiness
  • Natural
  • Contradiction

• Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Contradiction
  • Sign

• The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Dream
  • Knowledge
  • Contradiction

• Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Emotion
  • Logic
  • Advertising

• Evil perpetually tends to disappear.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Evil
  • Disappear

• Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Care
  • Feelings

• If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you. You should have faith in God that is the main thing which people don't understand what it means to have faith in God . That He is almighty, He does everything, He looks after everything, why should we worry? This is a very good way of life, is not to worry.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Mean
  • Wisdom

• Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run; all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.

  

  African Spir
  • Disappear
  • Contradiction