#vulgar

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Reid

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We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#insipid #rarest #seems #taste #vintage

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. ↗

— Valentino Garavani

#i #like #moment #vulgar

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#egg #learned #roast #vulgar

Frugality is for the vulgar. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#vulgar

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #being #being alone #books #changed

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

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