Best Inversions Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends? He was so thin, so translucent, that he had to pass through the same place twice to leave a shadow. Living out a destiny of convenience the way others sail under a flag of convenience.”

Destiny Shadow Convenience Inversions

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.”

Order Difficult Water Study Effects Pure Sugar Magnitude Thorough Inversions Pure Water Sugar Cane

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.”

“All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.”

Problem Computer Inversions Computer Graphics

Book:Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels

Source: Jim Blinn's Corner: Dirty Pixels

“We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.”

Feelings Hands Turns Social Strange Members Connections Witness Endeavor Contracts Erotic Calculating Social Contract Inversions

Book:Love and Friendship

Source: Love and Friendship

“The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.”

Produce Conscience Machines Rationality Compulsion Allegiance Inversions

Author:Max Horkheimer

“To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.”

Christian Christianity Atheism Dangerous Morality Foundation Positive Atheism Justify Christian Morality Inversions

Book:The Idea of a Christian Society

Source: The Idea of a Christian Society

“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.”

Ifs Mean Grows Dark White Higher Citizens Protect Highest Safety Rounds Saint Necks Feminine Throat Conventions Worn Committees Public Life Obscene Ribbons Crimson Public Safety Inversions

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Maybe Formula One should have an inversion rule in qualifying.”

Should Should Have Formulas Formula One Qualifying Inversions

Author:Bob Varsha

“Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.”

“I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.”

“I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.”

Believe Theory Don't Believe Witty Experiments Conventional Conventional Wisdom Inversions

Author:Arthur Eddington

“To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft.”

Thinking World Trying Universe Voice Harmony Notes Accidents Crafts Around The World Germany Tunes Cycles Melody Orchestra Symphony Symphony Orchestras Inversions Retrograde Tune Up

Author:Quincy Jones

“If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.”

Ifs Men Doe Process Objects Circumstances Cameras Historical Arise Ideology Phenomenon Upside Down Inversions Camera Obscura

Book:The German Ideology

Source: The German Ideology

“Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.”

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.”

Children Choices Results Effects Complexes Determined Passive Outlets Suffocating Inversions

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.”

Thinking Way Meditation Yoga Aging Life Changing Inversions

Author:Miranda Kerr

“I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.”

Thinking Want Should Trying Long Helping Term Decision Company Economy Exercise Taxes Behavior Capitalism Corporations Long Term Exit Profitability Inversions

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The Germans now seem the primary example of this [institutional-maintenance type] - which is another reason to scratch the head at their seeming determination to force the whole Church to adopt the Catholic Lite approach that has, in a bizarre inversion, emptied German churches of congregants while vastly expanding the German Church's bureaucracies.”

Reason Whole Seems Force Church Example Type Approach Determination Catholic Primaries Bureaucracy Bizarre Expanding Scratches Seeming Maintenance Inversions

Author:George Weigel

“In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.”

Found Interesting Streets Dog Circumstances Stranger Wander These Days Parks Peculiar Oddballs Mutts Inversions

Author:Susan Orlean

“The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.”

Men Matter Strange Indifference Sensitivity Great Ones Strangeness Inversions

Author:Blaise Pascal

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.”

“We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.”

People Lying Imagine Assuming Statements Inversions

Book:Eating the Dinosaur

Source: Eating the Dinosaur

“And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What we've experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we've come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine.”

Thinking Way Real Culture Wine Bottles Consumption Acquisition Intriguing Epiphany Artifacts Inversions

Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.”

Memories Essence Historical Inversions

Author:Emmanuel Levinas

“There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.”

Two Important Use Together Law Clear Limits Approach Solutions Tasks Critical Productivity Income Schedules Deadline Parkinson Parkinson's Inversions

Author:Tim Ferriss

“The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.”

Moments Given Share Produce Internet Bills Threat Burden Proof Treated Thieves Inversions Burden Of Proof

Author:Clay Shirky

“How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.”

May Persons Facts Dream Sex Pleasure Female Roots Males Inversions

Author:Richard von Krafft-Ebing

“...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.”

Thinking Form Dies Animal Wonder Stage Fashion Skins Mirrors Glimpse Catching Gloves Apparel Inversions

Author:Will Self

“Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.”

America Suffering Standards Confusion Inversions

Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.”

Firsts Made Two Real Earth Faces Courses Love Is Sun Greater Mankind Effects Evidence Sacred Contrary Spheres Affirmation Vengeance Revolving Greater Power Inversions Nazarene

Author:Louis Sullivan