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«Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, continuous, external, internal, relations
«Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, insane, insanity, perfectly, rational
«The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
adjustment, adolescent, adolescents, break loose, breathing, Feel the Need, in writing, maladjusted, resolving
«On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| About:
Love,
Marriage
| Keywords:
adjustment, couple, examination, married couple, miraculous, occasions
«It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.»
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Writer)
| Keywords:
adjustment, expend, expended, expending, expends, invariably, saddened, saddening, saddens
«Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
adjustment, adjustments, combination, combination lock, dials, in place, lock
«Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.»
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