#content

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#better person #closer #discontent #divine #draw

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad. ↗

— Matt Damon

#contentious #dad #divorced #households #i

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#books #burned #burning #content #making

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#being #content #deal #dream #dreams

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#another #because #contented #dance #dances

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#brain #content #different #different kinds #etc

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#content #does #justice #lack #profits

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#assassination #before #certainly #cia #commission

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#amount #coincides #content #entire #exactly

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#audience #audiences #been #content #enough