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A busy man who can keep up a daily journal resembles a Steel person preparing for bed with the shades up? When such a man publishes parts of his journal, the reader must conclude he always knew the lights were on.
— On George F. Kennan, Sketches From a Life (1989). In the Washington Post, 8 May 1989.
The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual – and his rights – as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.
l. neil smith— "Cambodian Road Trip," 15 March 2009
"But I can't devote myself entirely to a child," said she; "it may die — which is not at all improbable.""But, with care, many a delicate infant has become a strong man or woman.""But it may grow so intolerably like its father that I shall hate it.""That is not likely; it is a little girl, and strongly resembles its mother."
anne brontë— Ch. XXIII : The Park
On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit with other sentences which are doing so.
richard rorty— Introduction to Consequences of Pragmatism (1982)
His mind is concrete and fastidious,His nose is remarkably big;His visage is more or less hideous,His beard it resembles a wig.
Edward Lear— How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear, st. 2.
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.
otto weininger— p. 124 (Sex and Character (1903))
L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est, ne roule que sur des choses si simples. I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle— 1686 Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes.
No classic resembles any previous classic, so do not be discouraged.
— 1956 Advice to young writers, in McCall's, May.
Nowadays a sales conference resembles a Passion play: everybody is invited to participate and marvel at the drama.
— 1991In the Company ofWriters: A Life in Publishing.
Mydefinition of marriage? It resembles a pairof shears, so joined that theycannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Rev Sydney Smith— Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol.1, ch.11.
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.
joel bakan— Chapter 3, The Externalizing Machines, p. 69
Albers’s rule is to make order. As for me, I consider myself successful when I do something that resembles the lack of order I sense.
Robert Rauschenberg— p. 37 : Around 1949 during Black Mountain College
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
sydney smith— Volume I, ch. 11.
It closely resembles the situation that exists within a mental institution: in tight quarters, in similar garb, dissimilar minds attempt to build a consensus reality that, with a monumental effort of empathy, cannot—can never!—take concrete form.
jeff vandermeer— AppendiX, "King Squid", Part III: Expounding with brevity on the pecularities of squid lore, note 32
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Letter LXXXIII.
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
j. g. ballard— "Magnetic Sleep", review of From Mesmer to Freud by Adam Crabtree, originally published in [London] Daily Telegraph (1994)
This isn't a romanticized biography. It's a biography period. If here and there it resembles a romantic novel, the credit is only Garibaldi 's, not his potrayers.
indro montanelli— from the preface to Indro Montanelli e Marco Nozza, Garibaldi, BUR
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
novalis— “Miscellaneous Observations,” Philosophical Writings, M. Stolijar, trans. (Albany: 1997) #48
In the sixth century B.C., Gautama, an Aryan princeling on the northern frontier of India, formulated a bleakly pessimistic philosophy that markedly resembles Schopenhauer's. This high doctrine of negation, for reasons that would require an extensive historical explanation, became extremely popular, but was variously interpreted by at least eighteen rival schools, each of which claimed alone to preserve the true teaching of Gautama the Buddha, and Gautama's austere atheism was gradually contaminated and obscured by the usual theological techniques, so that a philosophy that was intended to supplant religion was converted into just another elaborate and learned superstition.
revilo p. oliver— "On the Roof of the World", Liberty Bell magazine (December 1987)
I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.
jean piaget— Interview with Jean Claude Bringuier (1969)
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology . (All that technology may say about ends is whether or not they are compatible with each other or realizable.)
karl popper— The Poverty of Historicism (1957) Ch. 22 The Unholy Alliance with Utopianism
The Wood of Suicides has changed since my last visit to Hell. I remember it as a tiny grove. Now it resembles a forest.
— Neil Gaiman, the character Dream, or Morpheus, in The Sandman #4.
A feeling of sadness and longing, that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— The Day is Done, Stanza 3.
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Self-Love.
See how the morning opes her golden gates, And takes her farewell of the glorious sun! How well resembles it the prime of youth, Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 1, line 21
But deep this truth impress'd my mind- Thro' all His works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.
— By Robert Burns in Robert Burns; James Currie; Gilbert Burns (1820). The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry. T. Cadell and W. Davies, ... and A. Constable and Company, Manners and Miller, Fairbairn and Anderson, A. Black, W. and C. Tait, at Edinburgh; and G. Clark, at Aberdeen.. p. 153.
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Boris Pasternak— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari (Pantheon 1958)
