Mary Hesse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

  • Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

  • An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on

  • You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.

  • Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

  • India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

  • The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

  • The only true development in American recreational resources is the development of the perceptive faculty in Americans. All of the other acts we grace by that name are, at best, attempts to ***** or mask the process of dilution.

  • What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

  • No matter where I am, I will always be there when you need me.