Quotes About Divergence

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Bodies can show up anywhere.

The perfect diamond has many facets. It's almost never that the same hand cuts them all.

las herejías —de cualquier clase, no sólo religiosas—son tan ciertas como las ortodoxias y que, además, nunca intentaron imponerse por la fuerza o vencer por el miedo.

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.

But if everyone was made to look perfect, then no one would be special because being special meant being different, by offering something that wasn't on offer elsewhere.

No two moralities match. Accept different shapes, so long as they aren't sharp enough to hurt.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often

Not every fruit has to be an apple.

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.

Stiftung is not enveloping thought, but open thought, not the intended and Vorhabe of an actual center, but an 'off-center' which will be rectified, not the positing of an end, but the positing of a style, not a frontal grasp but a lateral divergence, algae brought back from the depths.

The 'invisible world': it is given originally as non-Urprasentierbar, as the other is in his body given originally as absent--as a divergence, as a transcendence.

Signification is always the divergence: what the other says appears to me to be full of meaning because his lacunae are never where mine are. Perspective multiplicity.

What's a level? It's a typical activity, it's the universal context of an action in the world. Perceptual consciousness often consists in noticing divergence in relation to a level, and this divergence is the sense which is thus configuration or structure. This sense is less possessed than it is practiced: perhaps it can't be defined, but every aberrant fact is lived as deviation in relation to it. Thus perception adjusts imperfect circles, goes toward good forms.

Vertical and horizontal are not grasped for themselves but in the divergence of things from them. Thus as levels. Perception of them is imperception: it's when they're destroyed that we feel them, when they function they're what we take for granted. Therefore perceptual sense = divergence with respect to a level that is not thematic. Therefore meaning here is not essence.

The horizon is what, behind the thing, enables it to be a thing: gaps, ellipses, allusions to the sensible world, divergence, variation, difference of the 'world.

Zatvorio sam se, postao opsa?ena tvr?ava o koju su strijele uzalud udarale. Nije mi prijatelj, ili je ?udan prijatelj koji mi sije?e korijenje, potkopava temelje. Nema prijateljstva me?u ljudima koji druk?ije misle.

The more you were not with a person, the more your lives diverged.

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!

Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

You say potato; I say potahto...' 'I say integrity; you say deceit.