#simi

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#always #any #been #cheerful #history

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#battle #blood #engaged #first #flows

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age. ↗

— Michael Behe

#been #beyond #cell #examples #history

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#appropriate #developing #elephant #example #for example

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#activities #air #art #bosom #complicated

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#alliance #art #between #circumstance #ecstasy

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#christian #christian right #humanism #movements #reacting

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#simile

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#opinions

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#function #masterpieces #modern #museum #old