Peculiar Quotations | Page 4
Peculiar Quotes from:
- Samuel Johnson
- Ada Lovelace
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- John Ruskin
- Alexander Pope
- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
- John Hurt
- Shane Claiborne
- Ambrose Bierce
- Brian Eno
- Charles Caleb Colton
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
- Clive Bell
- George Morgan
- Isaac Asimov
- John Marshall
- John Stuart Mill
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Luc De Clapiers
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Dream Quotes
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind
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Men Quotes
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.
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Perseverance Quotes
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.