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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. J. L. Austin
Words Properly Themselves Uses Vague
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture. Jacques Derrida
Culture Everything Way Arranged
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. Jacques Derrida
Pure Believe Think Sign Writes Idioms Irreplaceable Manner Speaks Naturally Whoever Desire
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. Jacques Derrida
Life Reading Young Kind Bad Some Poetry Journals Also Wrote Withdrew Led North African Even Published
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. Jacques Derrida
Too Much Believe Too Visible Alive Claim Echoes Nevertheless Name Most Am Opponents Texts Which Inaccessible Little Much Resolute
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. Jacques Derrida
Me Try First Nothing Were Years Handed Ordeal
Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. Jacques Derrida
Me Recognize Could Longer Institution Readers Territory Certain
I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. Jacques Derrida
Difficult Too Would Would-Be Temptation Give Never Sake Just Being Ridiculous
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. Jacques Derrida
Language Algeria Philosophy Dream Dreamed Had Governed Were Begun Get Models Literature Certain
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. Jacques Derrida
Time Experience Nervous Edge Sick Frail Nervous Breakdown Case Paris Put Well Up Very Any Breakdown Hard
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. Jacques Ellul
Prayer History Together Creation Fragments Possible Shattered Makes Holds
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. Jacques Ellul
Women Reflection Thought Men Men And Women Live Sum Thoroughly Circumstances Pointless Rendered Been Modern Which Act
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Jacques Ellul
Lasting Virtually Press Television Unnoticed Constant Total Propaganda Environment Because Continuous Precisely Orchestration Influence Create Creates Radio
The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep. Jacques Maritain
Together Poet Single Out Only He Come Him Himself Knows Condition Forth Awakening Things Sleep
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. Jacques Maritain
Single Saves Idea Labor Infinity Experiences Us Right
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. Jacques Maritain
Sometimes Wait Will First Big Ocean Everything See Seems Arises Develops First One Another America Current Storm Formidable Sea Naught Moment Appear Bring
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. James Harrington
Man Army Fire Cold Earth Though Neither One-Man Give Write Know Read Without Nor Hand Iron Stone Afraid Cannon Which Therefore Whole Platform
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. James Harrington
Man First Politician Must See Except He Historian May Traveller
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology. James Mark Baldwin
History Matter Attaching Self Development Subject Subject Matter Personal The History Of Being Psychology Meaning Conscious
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. James Mark Baldwin
Science Other More Had Period Scientific Than Any Psychology Less
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas. James Mark Baldwin
Success Failure Balance Feeling Compromise Resulting Rivalry Ideas Equilibrium Continuous Conditions Consciousness
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem. James Mark Baldwin
Problem Further Terms Sort Dualism Becomes Condition Itself
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. James Mark Baldwin
Mind True Primitive Period Infancy Represents
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social. James Mark Baldwin
Thought Marks Individual Self-Consciousness Practical Social Appear Socrates Two
Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God. James Mark Baldwin
Truth God Goodness Idea Supreme Union Stands Plato
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. James Martineau
Music Religion Prayer Language Possible Atmosphere More Poetry Without Than
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