Albert J. Nock Quotes

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

Albert J. Nock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 13, 1870 - August 19, 1945

Topics

NatureSoulManSpiritualThought

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

Joe Hill

OceanShipStopChainsMightyTie

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

Jenny Downham

CommunityPeopleYouthYoungActor

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

Robert Moog

GreatSimplePaintingDetailsDesign

No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.

Travis Bradberry

PeopleYouNeverSeeAnythingThem

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

Mike Krzyzewski

FailureTeacherLosingParentsThink

Kenneth Branagh. There was a time in my life when people would tell me constantly that I look like him. I could do a lot worse than that.

Jonathan Dee

LifeTimePeopleMeMy LifeLook

If you're a photographer, they give you a camera. If you're a writer, they give you a typewriter. If you're an umpire, they give you an unseen object and they call it a strike zone, and nobody seems to agree with you no matter what you call.

Doug Harvey

CameraYouNobodyPhotographerAgree

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

Deeyah Khan

ManSocietyToughMasculinityRole

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

Debbie Gibson

LifeNew YorkPeopleMeMy LifeNew

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.

Sebastian Junger

SonUglyExpectationsLongYouGay

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

EducationManPeopleCollegeKnow

I trust my mum with anything. If I have a problem, my mum is always the first person I go to.

Richard Fleeshman

TrustProblemPersonGoFirstMum

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