Quotes About Contents

The same diversity in their ways of formation and the same rules for its solution hold good also for the innumerable medley of dream contents, examples of which I need scarcely adduce. Their strangeness quite disappears when we resolve not to place them on a level with the objects of perception as known to us when awake, but to remember that they represent the art of dream condensation by an exclusion of unnecessary detail.

La sugestión, en efecto, no puede producir nada que no se halle ya entre los contenidos de la consciencia o que no haya sido introducido en ella.

I conducted an investigation for Time magazine into how the Swiss put Jews into labour camps during the Second World War. That caused a stink, and Swiss newspapers paid an infamous private investigator to steal the contents of my bins in an attempt to find some dirt on me.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Sophara scrawled orders on a slate and handed it to one of the libationarians, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the contents and locations of all the bottles kept the bar running.

The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided. The durations of that time and the dimensions of that space are defined more by contents of the panel than by the panel itself.

Popper is philosophically so uncultured, so fully a primitive ideological brawler, that he is not able to even approximately to reproduce correctly the contents of one page of Plato. Reading is of no use to him; he is too lacking in knowledge to understand what the author says.

The more acute the systemization of consciousness is, the more sharply it constellates the contents of the unconscious.

Whenever the energy-charge of unconscious contents becomes excessive, they discharge themselves from the unconscious and are projected.

I have heard a thousand empty courtesies in my time, but you are the first knight who ever said "pissing" in my presence. Those pissing contents are how lords judge one another's strength, and woe to any man who shows weakness. A woman needs to piss twice as hard, if she hopes to rule.

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

Memory, I must suppose, if it is neglected becomes like a box room, or a lumber room in an old house, the contents jumbled about, maybe not only from neglect but also from too much haphazard searching in them, and things to boot thrown in that don't belong there.

Albert Ken-rich Fisher's 1900 "Summary of the Contents of 255 Stomachs of the Screech Owl" made me feel tired and sad, though also vaguely festive, owing to the author's "Twelve Days of Christmas"–style presentation: "91 stomachs contained mice … 100 stomachs contained insects … 9 stomachs contained crawfish … 2 stomachs contained scorpions …" Droppings provided a kinder, less taxing alternative.

See? I haven't reinvented myself at all. I'm just like any one of the half-dozen product relaunches I've worked on—shiny new packaging, same crap contents.

You're interested only in the history you've decided to target. In other words, you will be seeing bits and pieces of all possible targets that will ever be placed within the box, or the contents of the box before it is used for targeting.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

T he most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents

Later that day, Eisenhower noted in his diary that in the "brief time" he had to read over the "so-called 'new' charges" he had quickly realized that "they consist of nothing more than the receipt of a letter from a man named Borden. . . ." He then correctly assessed its contents: "This letter presents little new evidence. . . .

Personally, Vin didn't find the library's location nearly as asuming as its contents. Or, rather, lack thereof. Though the romm was lined with shelves, nearly all of them showed signs of having been pillaged by Elend. The rows of books lay pocked by forlorn empty spots, their companions taken away one by one, as if Elend were a predator, slowly whittling down a herd.

Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.