110 Quotes About Familiarity

unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

My belief is that a relationship is supposed to be a shared path to ecstasy, not a shared path to familiarity. Familiarity leads to boredom.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.