Unremitting Quotes
More Unremitting Quotes
We were put to Dickens as children but it never took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan Bennett— 1977 The Old Country, act 2.
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.
julian jaynes— Book III, Chapter 6, p. 435
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.
iris murdoch— The Nice and the Good, ch. 22.
How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.
joanna russ— Part 2, Chapter 5 (p. 22)
To a visitor who described himself as a seeker after Truth the Master said, "If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong ."
anthony de mello— Humility (One Minute Wisdom (1989))
And for the genre stuff I'm a big fan of Carpenter, Romero, Peckinpah, and Polanski, because they're unremitting and real and brilliant at showing characters under unbearable stress and unafraid of challenging us with uncomfortable truths as well as being just incredible filmmakers.
— Olszewski, Tricia (13 February 2009). "Interview With Donkey Punch Director Olly Blackburn". Washington City Paper (Creative Loafing Inc.). Retrieved on 23 February 2012.
Perhaps his greatest intellectual virtue was his unremitting adherence to clarity and to rational argument. His work is without allusions ...
— Alfred Jules Ayer, in A. J. Ayer's Philosophy And Its Greatness
