Subtler Quotes


Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. - George Byron


There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency - The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose. - John Maynard Keynes


There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity. - Antonin Artaud


The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. - Alfred Jarry


Tell them there's an ocean of bliss! ... It's like diving within makes you experience subtler fields of consciousness, intellect and even love. And it makes you feel so good! - David Lynch


Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. - Richard Powers


Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained. - Christopher Morley


Perhaps the entire harrowing episode would make his brain even finer, subtler, and more sensitive than it was. - John Gunther


One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself. - Jerome Bruner


Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise. - Leon Trotsky


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