understanding Quotes

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.