#scent

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#africa #because #books #central #comic

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#blind #consciousness #forces #himself #historic

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any. ↗

— George Grey

#any #ascent #been #covered #found

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#borders #childhood #elegant #everything #grand

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#crucial #crucial role #man #origin #play

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#care #descent #did #genealogy #his

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#hey #movement #nascent #nothing #now

If I am in love, many things about the world, not just the immediate object of my love, seem lovable. To say 'I love X' is somehow really to say 'X inspires love in me', and that love then attaches itself to objects other than X as well. The expansiveness of love is a natural means of ascent between levels. ↗

— Robin Waterfield

#diotima #plato #socrates #symposium #inspirational