Assumed Mode

Famous quotes containing the words assumed and/or mode:

“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)