#familiar

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#familiar #faster #fork #higher #just

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#expect #familiar #new #new technology #part

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#direct #familiar #feelings #function #i

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#away #becomes #been #death #deeper

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#complete #enough #familiar #heavenly #images

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

Familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Aesop

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#being #combines #die #i #ill