Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is that it teaches what you already know; it works by taking what we know from familiar and unquestioned set...
The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large...
I did not think you would be this impressed with my visit. I should come to see you more often." "Oh Fredrick," she said, not amused. "I am so glad to see a familiar face." "Is that all? A familiar face?" He let out a sigh. "For a minute I thought yo...
Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.
...there is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.... (p. 111)
Lying didn't feel good; it just felt familiar.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him.
I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.
