#notion

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#divines #liberty #nature #notions #school

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#being #commercial #different #different kind #distract

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#everybody #i #notion #single #some

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#find #generally #house #living #men

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. ↗

— Peter Singer

#human #human life #just #just because #life

The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#centuries #contemporary #context #epiphany #exciting

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#established #goal #i #notions #part

We are comfortable with the fact that we cannot know personally what happened in the world before we were born, yet we are uncomfortable with the notion that we will stop engaging with time at some point in the future. ↗

— John Barton

#born #cannot #comfortable #engaging #fact

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#certain #certain point #failure #get #i