A Quote by Timothy Morton

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

Timothy Morton

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Timothy Morton
English - Philosopher
Born: June 19, 1968

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

David Alan Grier

For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. .

Aristotle

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

Peter Kreeft

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Gautama Buddha

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

Jane Fonda

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

bell hooks

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

Laozi

There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.

Phyllis Rose

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

D. H. Lawrence

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

Haki R. Madhubuti

You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

Red Auerbach

It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.

Isabel Allende

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.

Cilla Black

When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.

Grace Paley

The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization. This antiquity will appear even greater when he realizes the length of time and the particular conditions which were necessary to bring all the living species into existence. This is particularly true since man is the latest result and present climax of this development, the ultimate limit of which, if it is ever reached, cannot be known.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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