Notion

Famous quotes containing the word notion:

“When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)