Quotes About Divergence

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To me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject.

I have begun to imagine human knowledge and ignorance as tracing a curve of asymptotic divergence, such that with every increase in knowledge, there occurs a greater increase in ignorance, the result being that our ignorance always exceeds our knowledge, and the gap between the two grows infinitely greater, not smaller, as infinite time passes.

No existen confrontación ni creación sin riesgos, sin derecho a la divergencia, a la posibilidad de estar juntos y de pensar distinto, a la posibilidad del crecimiento personal a costa de nadie, su atipicidad, su independencia, sus juegos de imaginación para poder fundar una nueva visión en un nuevo orden que le posibilite ante él mismo y ante los demás testimonear su verdad.

Not every god need be the same, he said.

With a Vietnamese massage parlor to its left and a lawn mower repair shop to its right

I have digressed, which is also the kind of writer I would become.

That's why I hate them. They force you to be like them—or else you're their enemy.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.

Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

Everyone is diffrent and that really is what makes everyone the same.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

The minute you start swimming with the stream is the minute when you get lost in the crowd.

We people are different from each other not because of our religion or race but by our choices and the decisions we make.

Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay. They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.

Gods and mortals never mixed happily in our stories.

Well, well, what I always say is, one should never argue about plays or novels. Everyone has his own way of looking at things, and what may be horrible to you is, perhaps, just what I like best.

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.