Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Topics: Authority Quotes, Inventions Quotes, Passion Quotes

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain,...

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain,...

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people...

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the...

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the...

In music the passions enjoy themselves

In music the passions enjoy themselves