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Characteristic Quotes
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The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood’s dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer (Characteristic Quotes)
And no, it wasn’t shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made (Characteristic Quotes)
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that are hereditary and characteristic of the human species. But the promise they hold can only be fulfilled through the experience of free activity conducted in the environment (Characteristic Quotes)
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic solely of children. They inability or unwillingness to see things as they are promotes both gullibility and charlatanism (Characteristic Quotes)
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced (Characteristic Quotes)
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline (Characteristic Quotes)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically, one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us (Characteristic Quotes)
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact (Characteristic Quotes)
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It’s because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick (Characteristic Quotes)
The thing that’s characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage (Characteristic Quotes)
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts (Characteristic Quotes)
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were (Characteristic Quotes)
The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good (Characteristic Quotes)
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value (Characteristic Quotes)
Characteristic of sickness: to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man (Characteristic Quotes)
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world (Characteristic Quotes)
Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics olio are infidels in religion. Ridiculous credulity! (Characteristic Quotes)
It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear (Characteristic Quotes)
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. Thou shalt not is their characteristic formula (Characteristic Quotes)
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top (Characteristic Quotes)
The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body (Characteristic Quotes)
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility... youth’s characteristic chronological snobbery (Characteristic Quotes)
The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle (Characteristic Quotes)
Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism (Characteristic Quotes)
Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances (Characteristic Quotes)
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader (Characteristic Quotes)
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing (Characteristic Quotes)
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor (Characteristic Quotes)
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics (Characteristic Quotes)
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic (Characteristic Quotes)