#mann

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#ettiquette #manners #sympathy #death

The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application. ↗

— David Hume

#arises #benefit #chief #immediate #indirect

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#compassion #congress #courage #ever #halls

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#conscious #consciousness #essential #facts #fertile

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#both #complex #concrete #game #literature

I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#insincerity #manners #friendship

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?" "I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#manners #pooh #tigger #humor

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion. ↗

— Mary Austin

#except #fashion #land #life #lived

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#extraordinary #fortunate #here #manner #recognized

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. ↗

— William Ames

#essence #far #god #his #manner