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Letter "F" » fixed point
«Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| About:
Mind,
Soul
| Keywords:
contributes, fix, fixed point, tranquilize, tranquilizing
«Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.»
«Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
contributes, fix, fixed point, tranquilize, tranquilizing
«The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.»
«When all is equally agitated, nothing appears to be agitated, as in a ship. When all tend to debauchery, none appears to do so. He who stops draws attention to the excess of others, like a fixed point.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, debaucheries, debauchery, draws, fixed point
«I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
breaking off, breaking point, break off, fixed, fixed point, Gazer, gloomiest, gloomy, point of view, solitary, The Wild, wanderer, wanderers
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