#thou

The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#decrees #following #frustrated #generally #habits

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#belief #confidence #degree #evidence #high

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#information #information technology #situation #technology #thought

I've often cringed when I heard myself described as a jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a jazz vocalist. ↗

— Cassandra Wilson

#described #heard #i #jazz #jazz singer

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#income #live #something #these #within

I think the most romantic letter you ever gave me was “W,” because it’s a couple of soul mate “V”s. Or maybe they were a couple of letters of the same sex engaging in a homosexual relationship. A “W” is two “V”s in a civil union, but the world is not ready to flip that on its head and let them go for the big “M. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny #gay #gays #homosexuality

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#father #had #i #life #my life

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#art #civilization #mother #our #own

We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same. ↗

— Ron Wood

#could #got #human #iron #keep

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. ↗

— Frances Wright

#fact #in fact #liberty #soul #without