Quotes with modes

  • Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

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  • Aristotle Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alexander Pope For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Susan Sontag In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • John Stuart Mill No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Auguste Rodin The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Albert Einstein The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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