Closed Densely Defined

Famous quotes containing the words closed, densely and/or defined:

“We are closed in, and the key is turned
On our uncertainty;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)