“ But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
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“ A good professor is a bastard perverse enough to think what he thinks is important, not what government thinks is important. ”
- Edward C. Banfield- Copy
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“ I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse. ”
- Diane Arbus- Copy
- 840
“ There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. ”
- Warren Buffett- Copy
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“ Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth… the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Many of us grow up with the idea that mistakes are bad, linking our self-esteem with continued success. We become afraid of making mistakes. So in order to achieve success, we tend to steer clear of areas that may lie outside the apparent realm of our natural talent… ”
- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan- Copy
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“ A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ”
- Barbara Holland- Copy
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“ In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them. ”
- Clive Barker- Copy
- 2.1K
“ We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ One cannot but wonder at this constantly recurring phrase getting something for nothing, as if it were the peculiar and perverse ambition of disturbers of society. Except for our animal outfit, practically all we have is handed us gratis. Can the most complacent reactionary flatter himself that he invented the art of writing or the printing press, or discovered his religious, economic, and moral convictions, or any of the devices which supply him with meat and raiment or any of the sources of such pleasure as he may derive from literature or the fine arts? In short, civilization is little else than getting something for nothing. ”
- James H. Robinson- Copy
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“ Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
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“ It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent "celibacy," by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity "backward… ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil — far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word "human" disappears from the race. ”
- Jill Tweedie- Copy
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