There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be useful. Man positively needs general ideas & convictions that will give a meaning to his life & enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. He can stand the most incredible hardships when he is convinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his misfortunes, he has to admit that he is taking part in a ‘tale told by an idiot. ’
We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.
I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book.
My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.
The Democrats were crushed in the midterm elections. The Republican juggernaut pounded the Democrats, and the pundits say they will not really know what happened to the Democrats until they find the black box.
You are being self-pitying. " "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear. " "I like you better this way. " "Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em.
It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.
Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
. . . (O)ne thing that the world can count on is that we will not allow Israel to be crushed.
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth.
An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.
Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed-but they can never be appeased.
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.
I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some. . . darker place.
When giants fought, ants were crushed.
I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.