Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    “A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.”
    —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

    “When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)