#tract

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#appearances #day #even #every #every day

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being. ↗

— James G. Frazer

#apt #being #complex #consideration #his

He drew me like gravity. ↗

— M. Leighton

#gravity #love

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#emphasize #i #i tried #interest #make

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in. ↗

— Jason Marsden

#certain #distracted #easily #extremely #grab

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#carry #considering #contract #earth #every

My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over. ↗

— Elizabeth Perkins

#always #attractive #came #door #find

Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. - ↗

— Emerson

#new-thought #science-of-mind #science

We attract what we're meant to because we're aware & self-empowered enough to choose most of the time. Other times we have lessons to learn ↗

— Jay Woodman

#aware #awareness #choose #choosing-peace #choosing-serenity

My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality. For four years, that’s what I believed. And I wasted all of my university days–during which I had the most courage and honesty I would ever have towards life–because of it. ↗

— Miaojin Qiu

#notes-of-a-crocodile #beauty