Distinction Quotes - Page 17

• The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Block, Cities, Two

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• Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Comfort, May, Unreal

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• Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

  Susan Rice

  Democracy, Prevention, Facts

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• Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Daughter, War, Iraq

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.

  Rob Corddry

  Comedian, Actors, Kind

  "The GQ&A: Rob Corddry". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. July 21, 2011.

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• What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Women, Differences

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1755, Delphi Classics

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• We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Knowing, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.169

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• Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Rain

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blow, Men, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.36, Xist Publishing

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• This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.

  Herbert Read

  Mean, Cutting, Practice

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• In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Real, Men

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• I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it’s just not real. That’s what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happens, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

  William P. Young

  Real, Thinking, Fiction

  Interview with C.J. Darlington, Miriam Parker, Deena Peterson, Melissa J. Carswell, www.titletrakk.com.

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• No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Order, Noble

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• To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Intellectual, Historian

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• I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Expression, Feelings

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 129, 1863.

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• Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

  Laozi

  Life, Spiritual, Being There

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

  Walter Scott

  Vanity, And Love, Philanthropy

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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• The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above the distinction of sex.

  James Mackintosh

  Sex, Philosophy, Grace

  Sir James Mackintosh (1835). “Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh”, p.217

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• A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

  Josh Billings

  Witty, Porcupines, Quills

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• The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beauty, Men, Firsts

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• All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Thinking, Differences

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• The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Causes, Common

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, all came here for this great purpose. They did not come here to do as they pleased - but to worship God as they pleased, and that is an important distinction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Catholic, Religion

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1965). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Unjust

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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• God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Children, Justice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “None High: None Low”

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