Quotes for All
The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something – a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something – something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don’t we go … Read more
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions – all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion – pleasantness and sentimentality. Gabrielle Roth
Who has no own conviction dissipates himself in the imitation of others. Ernst Moritz Arndt
The Cube is an imitation of life itself – or even an improvement on life. Erno Rubik
The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate. Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin. Enrique Lihn
When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. … the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination. Elsie de Wolfe
Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of … Read more