D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Knowing Quotes

So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

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I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

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If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

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It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

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Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

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The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

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I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

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Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.

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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

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