Degrees Quotes - Page 14

• The priest invents and encourages every kind of suffering and distress so that man may not have the opportunity to become scientific, which requires a considerable degree of free time, health, and an outlook of confident positivism. Thus, the religious authorities work hard to make and keep people feeling sinful, unworthy, and unhappy.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Religious, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Have Faith, Evolution

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.83, Criss Jami

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• A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

  Brit Marling

  Movie, Thinking, Law

  "Brit Marling: The Breakout Indie Star Who’s Taking Us To “Another Earth” And Back Again". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. July 20.

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• The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Law, Independence, Stronger

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.461, Vintage

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• For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Needs, Cases

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.171, Cambridge University Press

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• Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Quality, Demand, May

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.46, Penguin

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• Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

  William Wordsworth

  Play, Ease, Language

  'To the Same Flower [Daisy]' (With little here to do, 1807)

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• You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

  Madame de Stael

  Beautiful, Distance, Sublime

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.

  Paul Valery

  Spiritual, Art, Ideas

  "Reflections on the World Today" by Paul Valery, (pp. 167-168), 1931.

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• A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Intellectual, Males

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.78

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, Ugly, Faces

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• Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

  Bill Vaughan

  Innovation, Prejudice, Attention

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• To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

  Tom Stoppard

  War, Eye, Artist

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Travesties”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Merit

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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• Freedom doth with degree dispense.

  Ben Jonson

  1616 The Forest,'To Sir Robert Wroth'.

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• The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Struggle, Echoes, Agency

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “Biographia Literaria: Top Biography”, p.123, 谷月社

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• In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases, will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of People comprehended under the same Government.

  James Madison

  Country, Religious, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, J.R. Pole (2005). “The Federalist”, p.283, Hackett Publishing

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• Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fall, Mean, Men

  1942 My Remarkable Uncle,'Three Score and Ten'.

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• Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Men, May

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.

  George Steiner

  Art, Skills, Looks

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• I did some films in college, and I remember working with this director that wanted to shock me so that I'd give him an expression of shock, so he poured scalding hot water on my arm during the take. He splashed it on me. He got his expression of shock, but I also got, like, second-degree burns!

  John Kapelos

  College, Expression, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree. I suppose there is a juxtaposition involved in that because you do have to be a civil servant but you're doing a tremendously exciting job, or potentially an exciting job, or a glamourous job.

  Guy Ritchie

  Jobs, Ideas, Juxtaposition

  Source: collider.com

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• I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

  Russell Johnson

  Engagement, Mit, Coconuts

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• It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ability, Knows

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• It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Tree, May, Curious

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.179

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