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Letter "A" » ambiguities
«If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.»
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
| About:
Faith
| Keywords:
ambiguities, bearable, joys, Other side, side, startle, startling, sudden, The other side, tragedies, verified, verifies, verifying
«Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.»
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
| Keywords:
ambiguities, ambiguity, authoritarian, intolerance, The Mark, The Mark of
«On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
ambiguities, ambiguity, on the road, pass through, skepticism, The Valley, valley
«I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.»
«A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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Smile
| Keywords:
ambiguities, The Chosen, vehicle
«A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.»
«The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.»
Author: Paul Tillich
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
achievements, ambiguities, ambiguity, definite, maturity, symptom
«Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Neurosis
| Keywords:
ambiguities, ambiguity, inability, tolerate, tolerating
«In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.»
«Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,Till we can clear these ambiguities.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambiguities, for a while, outrage, outraged, seal, till we
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