Quotes about elude-us
elude-us tests facts
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. Richard Owen
elude-us elude-you sunrise
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. Norman Maclean
elude-us stupidity computer
Although computer-generated artificial intelligence eludes us, artificial stupidity has been perfected. P. J. O'Rourke
elude-us knowing attention
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
elude-us understanding depth
The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime. Sam Harris
elude-us creative ego
The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for. Michael Leunig
elude-us elude eternity
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought. Mason Cooley
elude-us trying stories
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely. Jeanette Winterson
elude-us secret facts
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. Georges Bataille
elude-us order elude
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.
elude-us goal effort
We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us. Erich Fromm