#destroys

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. ↗

— Chris Ware

#age #believe #destroys #development #i

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. ↗

— Andre Gide

#happiness #only #prepares #story #told

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#builds #capitalism #destroys #get #left

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#art #destroys #i #i think #oneself

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#ambition #be strong #bury #destroys #else

What feeds me destroys me. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#feeds #me

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#am #destroys #first #habit #i

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#call #destroys #god #him #man

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗

— August Strindberg

#cannot #consumes #destroys #end #ever