„If people could treat others as though they were speaking face to face, that would be huge.“
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„What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.“
— Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1902 - 1983
Section 89
„From far away, through the sights of a sniper, they would look like Muslims, Serbs or Croats to somebody, but I approached them face to face, I saw them clearly, and trust me... They were just people...“
— Đorđe Balašević Serbian songwriter 1953
(of his first post-war Sarajevo concert)
„If in four months I could not find Tom Chaney with a mark on his face like banished Cain I would not undertake to advise others how to do it.“
— Charles Portis American actor 1933
Chapter 4, p. 72 : 'Mattie Ross' to 'LaBoeuf'
„These Americans are cowards, because if they were courageous, they would have confronted us face-to-face, rather than coming at us from behind“
— Tariq Aziz Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein 1936 - 2015
attributed to Tareq Aziz in a July, 2007 interview http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/1516.htm with former Iraqi press secretary Abd Al-Jabbar Muhsen
„Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832
Maxim 246, trans. Stopp
„The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.“
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
„Mankind could not admit an anarchical,— a dual or multiple — universe. The world was there, staring them in the face, with all its chaotic conditions, and society insisted on its Unity in self-defence. Society still insists on treating it as Unity though no longer affecting logic.“
— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918
Context: Mankind could not admit an anarchical,— a dual or multiple — universe. The world was there, staring them in the face, with all its chaotic conditions, and society insisted on its Unity in self-defence. Society still insists on treating it as Unity though no longer affecting logic. Society insists on its free will, although free will has never been explained to the satisfaction of any but those who much wish to be satisfied, and although the words in any common sense implied not unity but duality in creation. The Church had nothing to do with inventing this riddle,— the oldest that fretted mankind.
"Affecting": making a pretence of
„Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.“
— Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
„Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you were about to say better than you did yourself, and when it is their turn to speak, they repeat with great assurance something that they have heard other people say, as though it were their own invention.“
— Eugène Delacroix French painter 1798 - 1863
25 February 1852 (p. 152)
„If I could I would kiss his wrists.
If I had half the courage to face his pain.“
— Masiela Lusha Albanian actress, writer, author 1985
"A Man of Forty" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-man-of-forty/