Divergence Quotes

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Fun for us just happens to be screwing around with anything that gets our attention and is thought-provoking.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

… two men may be as sincere, as earnest, as faithful, as uncompromising, and yet hold opinions far asunder as the poles

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

I really want to be different.

My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

If all the economists in the world would be laid end to end, they would still point in different directions.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

Dissension is healthy, even when it gets loud.

Three Spaniards, four opinions.

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

We can either grow together or grow apart. At the moment we are growing apart.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.