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Quotes About Circularity

The circularity of karma is explicitly set from the time of creation: You must be what you are; you cannot change your qualities.
~ Wendy Doniger
How often feelings are circular. How embarrassing to be embarrassed. How annoying to be annoyed.
~ James Richardson
Dr. Kellet said, "it's a snake with its tail in its mouth." He nodded approvingly and said to Sylvie, "It's a symbol representing the circularity of the universe. Time is a construct, in reality everything flows, no past or present, only the now.
~ Kate Atkinson
valuable technical nutrients—cars, televisions, carpeting, computers, and refrigerators, for
~ William McDonough
It's a symbol representing the circularity of the universe. Time is a construct, in reality everything flows, no past or present, only the now.
~ Kate Atkinson
Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
~ Thomas Clifford Allbutt
Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and this is why so many of us so often resort to it—not so much to resolve baffling problems, but to be absolved of the obligation to worry about them.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
I realize now that this was circular reasoning impregnable to debate.
~ Robert Dugoni
In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.
~ Roland Barthes
T.S. Elliot: "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.
~ Douglas E. Richards
A Christian theist, while conceding that the argument for God's existence is circular, nevertheless will claim that the argument is sound and persuasive. For he devoutly believes that his position is true, and he believes that it can be clearly recognized as such. He believes that God made men to think in terms of this circularity, rather than in terms of some competing circularity.
~ John Frame
There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.
~ John M. Frame
The outcome is the same as the beginning only because the beginning is an end.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
~ Samantha Power
Los viajes siempre son dobles, tienen reverso, se completan cuando uno regresa al punto de partida;
~ Sergio Bizzio
endless loop, n. See loop, endless. loop, endless, n,. See endless loop.
~ Steven Pinker
The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both.
~ Gregory Maguire
The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominos falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again.
~ Gregory Maguire
There is no such thing as a Fourth Industrial Revolution with 9 billion thriving co-citizens in the world if it is accomplished on linear economic principles. We need a transition to circular economic principles and practice.
~ Johan Rockstrom
As I grow wiser and more skeptical, I realize that almost everything in nomenclature comes full circle. The question remains whether I can outlast the taxonomists.
~ Michael A. Dirr
When you know as much as we do, nothing matters. Things just repeat. Day and night, summer and winter. The world is empty and aimless. Everything circles around. Whatever starts up must pass away,whatever is born must die. It all cancels out, good or bad, beautiful or ugly.
~ Michael Ende
But then, of course, there are always unanswered questions. Those questions lead to more questions, with the circularity of the endless inquest, keeping people like me in business. We can and should always poke at the questions of motivation. And we will. There never is a final draft of history.
~ Bob Woodward
There is no progress: there is perpetual movement, displacement, which is circular, spiral, endless. Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it lead him.
~ Henry Miller