All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work. . . coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. . . If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.
The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.
The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Kant. . . was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for knowledge. " Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.
