Degree Power Series

Famous quotes containing the words degree, power and/or series:

“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

“O to be a dragon
a symbol of the power of Heaven—of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)