Quotes of Irregularity - somelinesforyou

“ Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface. He, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. ”

- George Santayana

“ What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. ”

- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau

“ Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. ”

- Michael Polanyi

“ Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere. ”

- Benoit Mandelbrot

“ Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours. ”

- George Santayana

“ It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ”

- Anais Nin

“ The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule. ”

- Charles Osgood

“ Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ”

- David Hare

“ The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances. Command by obeying. ”

- Motto

“ An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of beauty — a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all deformity and disproportion. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ It is a great mistake to follow the exception, instead of the rule; we must show ourselves as strict, and opposed to the exception; yet, as there are exceptions to every rule, we must decide with strictness, though with justice. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact or the description of one actual phenomenon to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ From a medical point of view, negative thinking supresses the immune system, raises the blood pressure, and creates a general level of stress and fatigue in the body. In short, infections, cardiovascular irregularities, the degeneration of muscles, and the random growth of unwanted cells get more opportunity. ”

- Peter McWilliams
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