- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
- Imitation
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- Nov 07, 2020
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
- Gliding
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- Nov 07, 2020
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
- Opponent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't feel my opponent's power. I feel something happening when I get hit, but I don't feel power.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020