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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
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)
"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
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))
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
The heart benevolent and kindThe most resembles God.
Robert Burns— A Winter Night (1787)
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)
Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.
jacques barzun— II (Bernard Shaw in Twilight (1943))
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
gabriel garcía márquez— The Art of Fiction, #69: Interview with Peter H. Stone (Issue 82, Winter 1981), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Sixth Series (Viking/Penguin, 1984, ISBN 0-140-07736-7), p. 322
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!
Paul Gauguin— Letter to Ambroise Vollard (January 1900), p. 205
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
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
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
— Aldous Huxley (Definitions of Europe by geography or culture)
