#resembles

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#feelings #good #good music #motivated #mysterious

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#ceased #certain #course #i #i do

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. ↗

— Voltaire

#dear #gives #instrument #love is #mankind

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly. ↗

— Alice Walker

#bright #country #fifties #free #ghettos

It's really rare as a teenager to be offered a role that actually resembles what it's like to be a teenager, because there are so many stereotypes that might be attractive to watch, but make you think: 'Who is that? Who has that life at 16?' ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#attractive #because #life #like #make

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#choice #huge #increasingly #intelligent #jail

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #his #honor #land #most

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#beast #brute #everything #god #live

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#europe #his #image #man #metaphysical

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. ↗

— Henry Adams

#american president #commander #course #grasp #helm