Unacknowledge Quotes

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.”

“Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.”

“Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.”

“Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdeter”

“I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.”

“Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil")”

“When there is no connection at all between people, then anger is a way of bringing them closer together, of making contact. But when there is a great deal of connectedness that is problematic or threatening or unacknowledged, then anger is a way of keeping people separate, of putting distance between us.”

“As in all great cataclysmic events, men are forced to show their true colours. Some will achieve the status of legend for their courage, brilliance and dedication; some will possess all the same qualities unacknowledged; others will be plodders doing their best; and there will be those who will be what they have always been -- sewer rats.”