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Letter "I" » imagines
«Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance»
Author: Eric Temple Bell
(Biographer, Educator, Mathematician, Writer)
| Keywords:
consuming, famine, feast, finality, imagines, impel, impelling, impels, nevertheless, uncritical
«There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.»
Author: Louis Aragon
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
black light, characteristics, companion, corollary, delusion, dispense, dispense with, flatter, imagines, landscape, signally, There exists
«She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.»
Author: Mavis Gallant
| About:
Being a Woman,
Camping,
Life
| Keywords:
be full, camps, emergencies, handbag, imagines, loaded
«Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.»
«So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it»
«Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Generations
| Keywords:
generation, imagines, intelligent, went, wiser
«He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
esteemed, Esteeming, esteems, imagines, too much
«Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
definition, imagines, purity, unassailable
«He goes by the brand, yet imagines he goes by the flavor.»
«Man falsely imagines I am doing this , I am planning this . It is the supreme, all pervasive consciousness that motivates, unfolds the skills and operates the intellect.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
imagines, motivates, operates, pervasive, unfolds
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