Search
Authors
Tags
Quotes
- Visit Dr. Mardy's iWise Blog
.
View
.
View
.
Tweet :
Yes
|
No
View
.
Tweet :
Yes
|
No
CATEGORIES
#
America
#
Flowers
#
Music
#
Decay
#
Hollywood
#
Example
#
Vice
#
Paradox
#
Lust
#
Growth
Thomas Mann
: Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Thomas Mann quote-Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting...
Wisdom feed seeded by this
quote
2
tweets
Soren Kierkegaard :
"
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
George Eliot :
"
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Marcel Proust :
"
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Oscar Wilde :
"
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
John Rechy :
"
You can rot here without feeling it.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
William Shakespeare :
"
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal :
"
No one every suddenly became depraved.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Sam Harris :
"
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
A P Herbert :
"
The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
132
tweets
Ralph Waldo Emerson :
"
Earth laughs in flowers.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
P. G. Wodehouse :
"
Flowers are happy things.
"
# Submission
# America
# Flowers
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Thomas Mann Wisdom feed
111
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
"
# Love
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
100
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
"
# Writers and Writing
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
32
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
"
# Freedom of Speech
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
32
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
"
# Peace
# War
# Coward and Cowardice
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
29
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
"
# Ideas
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
8
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
"
# Unknown
# Enemies
# Mastery
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
5
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
"
# Consequences
# Deeds and Good Deeds
# Beauty
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
4
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
Passionate — that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for the sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment. C'est ça. You don't realize what revolting egoism it is, and that one day it will make you the enemies of the human race.
"
# Quotations
# Love
# Friends and Friendship
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
2
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.
"
# Dogs
# America
# President
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
2
tweets
Thomas Mann:
"
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
"
# Music
# Politicians and Politics
# Suspicion
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Gift it
 Juvenal_64x64.png "Quotations by (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal")
 G(renville)_Wodehouse_64x64.png "Quotations by P. G. Wodehouse")
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=96790&author=Thomas Mann"e=Paradox+is+the+poisonous+flower+of+quietism%2C+the+iridescent+surface+of+the+rotting+mind%2C+the+greatest+depravity+of+all.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=21410&author=Soren Kierkegaard"e=++The+paradox+is+really+the+pathos+of+intellectual+life+and+just+as+only+great+souls+are+exposed+to+passions+it+is+only+the+great+thinker+who+is+exposed+to+what+I+call+paradoxes%2C+which+are+nothing+else+than+grandiose+thoughts+in+embryo.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F572%2FSoren_Kierkegaard_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=21409&author=George Eliot"e=++Play+not+with+paradoxes.+That+caustic+which+you+handle+in+order+to+scorch+others+may+happen+to+sear+your+own+fingers+and+make+them+dead+to+the+quality+of+things.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F266%2FGeorge_Eliot_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=21411&author=Marcel Proust"e=++The+paradoxes+of+today+are+the+prejudices+of+tomorrow%2C+since+the+most+benighted+and+the+most+deplorable+prejudices+have+had+their+moment+of+novelty+when+fashion+lent+them+its+fragile+grace.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F348%2FMarcel+Proust_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=21412&author=Oscar Wilde"e=++The+way+of+paradoxes+is+the+way+of+truth.+To+test+Reality+we+must+see+it+on+the+tight-rope.+When+the+Verities+become+acrobats+we+can+judge+them.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F67%2FOscar+Wilde_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=59288&author=John Rechy"e=You+can+rot+here+without+feeling+it.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F11674%2FJohn+Rechy_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=976&author=William Shakespeare"e=++%27Tis+but+an+hour+ago+since+it+was+nine%2C+and+after+one+hour+more+twill+be+eleven.+And+so+from+hour+to+hour+we+ripe+and+ripe%2C+and+then+from+hour+to+hour+we+rot+and+rot.+and+thereby+hangs+a+tale.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F23%2FWilliam_Shakespeare_64x64.png){kind=link}
 Juvenal"e=++No+one+every+suddenly+became+depraved.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F1611%2F%28Decimus+Junius+Juvenalis%29+Juvenal_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=86586&author=Sam Harris"e=The+idea%2C+therefore%2C+that+religious+faith+is+somehow+a+sacred+human+convention%E2%80%94distinguished%2C+as+it+is%2C+both+by+the+extravagance+of+its+claims+and+by+the+paucity+of+its+evidence%E2%80%94is+really+too+great+a+monstrosity+to+be+appreciated+in+all+its+glory.+Religious+faith+represents+so+uncompromising+a+misuse+of+the+power+of+our+minds+that+it+forms+a+kind+of+perverse%2C+cultural+singularity%E2%80%94a+vanishing+point+beyond+which+rational+discourse+proves+impossible.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F14102%2FSam+Harris_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=87892&author=A P Herbert"e=The+portions+of+a+woman+which+appeal+to+man%27s+depravity%0AAre+constructed+with+considerable+care.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F2845%2FA++P+Herbert_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=5909&author=Ralph Waldo Emerson"e=++Earth+laughs+in+flowers.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F8029%2FRalph+Waldo+Emerson_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=5929&author=P G Wodehouse"e=++Flowers+are+happy+things.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F72%2FSir+P%28elham%29+G%28renville%29_Wodehouse_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=47184&author=Thomas Mann"e=It+is+love%2C+not+reason%2C+that+is+stronger+than+death.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=47187&author=Thomas Mann"e=A+writer+is+a+person+for+whom+writing+is+more+difficult+than+it+is+for+other+people.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=47186&author=Thomas Mann"e=It+is+impossible+for+ideas+to+compete+in+the+marketplace+if+no+forum+for+their+presentation+is+provided+or+available.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=96830&author=Thomas Mann"e=War+is+only+a+cowardly+escape+from+the+problems+of+peace.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=11621&author=Thomas Mann"e=++If+you+are+possessed+by+an+idea%2C+you+find+it+expressed+everywhere%2C+you+even+smell+it.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=36199&author=Thomas Mann"e=++You+ask+what+is+the+use+of+classification%2C+arrangement%2C+systemization%3F+I+answer+you%3A+order+and+simplification+are+the+first+steps+toward+the+mastery+of+a+subject-the+actual+enemy+is+the+unknown.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=96780&author=Thomas Mann"e=The+beautiful+word+begets+the+beautiful+deed.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=96808&author=Thomas Mann"e=Passionate+%E2%80%94+that+means+to+live+for+the+sake+of+living.+But+one+knows+that+you+all+live+for+the+sake+of+experience.+Passion%2C+that+is+self-forgetfulness.+But+what+you+all+want+is+self-enrichment.+C%27est+%C3%A7a.+You+don%27t+realize+what+revolting+egoism+it+is%2C+and+that+one+day+it+will+make+you+the+enemies+of+the+human+race.%E2%80%A8&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=2093&author=Thomas Mann"e=++The+meeting+in+the+open+of+two+dogs%2C+strangers+to+each+other%2C+is+one+of+the+most+painful%2C+thrilling%2C+and+pregnant+of+all+conceivable+encounters%3B+it+is+surrounded+by+an+atmosphere+of+the+last+canniness%2C+presided+over+by+a+constraint+for+which+I+have+no+precise+name%3B+they+simply+cannot+pass+each+other%2C+their+mutual+embarrassment+is+frightful+to+behold.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=19971&author=Thomas Mann"e=++There+is+something+suspicious+about+music%2C+gentlemen.+I+insist+that+she+is%2C+by+her+nature%2C+equivocal.+I+shall+not+be+going+too+far+in+saying+at+once+that+she+is+politically+suspect.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2FauthorIcons%2F369%2FThomas+Mann_64x64.png){kind=link}