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  • Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

    Art   Reality   Details  
    Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
  • A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

    Dog   Real   Suffering  
    Agnes Repplier (1924). “Under dispute”
  • It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

    William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of nerves, and put the Ego only in one body, if the mind is omnipresent? There is no reason why I should.[Source] The root of that degeneration is egotism - to think that one is just as great as any other, indeed!

    Thinking   Roots   Ego  
  • The beginning is always so fine!! But decay soon follows. A degeneration into the tired old situation. The rot sets in. This way, there is only the beauty of the start!

    Tired   Decay   Fine  
    "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book series by Jhonen Vasquez, August 1995 – January 1997.
  • Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

    Beer   Alcohol   Doe  
  • Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

    Views   Optimism   World  
    Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”
  • Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

    "This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being". Interview with Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.
  • In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

    Eye   Age   Causes  
  • It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

    Baby   Answers   World  
    Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.347
  • From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

    May   Riches   Talent  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.18
  • Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.

    Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann
  • We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

    Rome   Victory   Triumph  
  • The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.495, Vintage
  • In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the ideals which have made this country great. We must reaffirm the basic human values that have guided our forefathers. A revival of old-fashioned patriotism and a grateful acknowledgment of what our country has done for us would be good for all our souls.

    Country   Grateful   Soul  
  • Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if mathematical analysis should ever hold a prominent place in chemistry -- an aberration which is happily almost impossible -- it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

  • There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.

    Senior   Kids   Loss  
    Source: visionlossresources.org
  • In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

    Mind   Skins   States  
    Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.99, Grove Press
  • I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.

    Real   Fall   Order  
  • In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

    Society   Inward   Way  
    Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books
  • People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

    Israel   People   Moral  
    "Q&A: Noam Chomsky". Interview with David Samuels, www.tabletmag.com. November 12, 2010.
  • As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.

    "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
  • The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

    Science   Boys   Cells  
  • Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

    Crush   Rights   Liberty  
  • Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

    Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 27, 1889.
  • The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

  • It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached.

    Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.68, Cambridge University Press
  • America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

    Attributed in Saturday Review of Literature, 1 Dec. 1945
  • Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

  • Everyone fixes up their face if it’s not ideal, you know? That’s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dad’s nose. She goes and files it down a little, and it’s all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so there’s degeneration, and it didn’t used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

    Cute   Beautiful   Girl  
    "This is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being." by Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.
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