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“Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.”

Ifs Mind Children Natural Knowing Creatures Adults Affection Selfish

Book:A Treatise on Parents and Children

Source: A Treatise on Parents and Children

“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”

Ifs Knows Men Two Earth Artist Three Behinds Knowing Feet He Man Creatures Dancing Inspired Leaving Surface Tales Print

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.”

Littles Persons Feelings Attention Knowing Greater Objects Creatures Fellows Deny Invention Superiors Esteem Preference Ceremony Endeavour Uneasy Uneasy Feelings

Author:Charles Lamb

“Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.”

Knows Men Mind Reason Care Desire Passion Causes Pleasure Animal Knowing Generations Creatures Perseverance Curiosity Delight Lust Appetite Distinguished Living Creatures Vehemence

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.”

People Men World Believe May Belief Poor Forever Knowing Streets He Man Arms Creatures Doctrine Not Knowing Uncertain Wounded Powerless

Author:Phillips Brooks

“[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!”

Humans Heart Hard Use Values Names Speak Language Friendship Knowing Doubt Friends Creatures Tasks Assuming Pity Surround Suspicion Maxims Use Of Language

Author:Sarah Fielding

“It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.”

Made Knowing Creatures All Things

Book:The Showings of Divine Love

Source: The Showings of Divine Love

“We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remainswe can't know.”

Knows Want Enough Facts Purpose Dies Wish Animal Knowing Alive Creatures Smart Remains Existential Unlucky

Book:The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

Source: The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)

“Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.”

Thinking Knows Men Writing Art Two Lasts Asks Half Knowing He Man Drink Creatures Asking Wine Cups Branches Two Things Mistaken Mold Inscriptions

Author:Rumi

“What I try to communicate is that there's a lot of crossover between that feeling of romantic heartbreak and this devastating feeling of knowing that we've punched a hole in the planet and it's spilling out oil and destroying the Gulf of Mexico and the ecosystem and seabirds and every creature.”

Trying Feelings Knowing Planets Creatures Communicate Oil Holes Destroying Mexico Ecosystems Spilling Crossover Gulf Of Mexico

Author:Mirah

“Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.”

Thinking Knows Men Has Beens Art Actors Found Simple Knowing Imagine Ignorance Higher Mets Creatures Degrees All Things Imitation Deceived Wizards Accuracy Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Socrates