#fragments

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

#fossils #found #fragments #had #recognisable

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ↗

— Elizabeth Wilson

#conflict #difference #fragments #inequality #never

Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#fragments #many #moderns #origin #their

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#desire #fails #fragments #instead #longer

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. ↗

— Terry Riley

#abstract #create #decided #doing #experimentation

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#civilizations #flourished #fragments #great #having

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#also #beautiful #brings #construction #dash

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. ↗

— David Bohm

#attempt #confronting #crises #essence #extremely

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#fragments #history #holds #makes #possible

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#just #line #lyrics #melodies #remain