Ordinary Degrees

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or degrees:

    “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)

    “Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)