Contact Quotes

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. (Carl Jung)
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. View quote
David Brin
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. View quote
Heinrich Heine
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. View quote
Bill Watterson
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. View quote
Tadao Ando
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. View quote
François Mitterrand
Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work. View quote
John Brunner
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. View quote
Pablo Picasso
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact. (Marie-Louise von Franz)
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. View quote
Franz Boas
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. View quote
Anna Freud
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. View quote
Manuel Puig
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe. View quote
Loretta Young
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them. View quote
Carlisle Floyd
If you are looking for a producer, try to contact established producers. Don't let the fear of theft paralyze you, or you will never get anywhere with it. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church. View quote
Timothy Radcliffe
I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism. View quote
Germaine Greer
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. View quote
Rollo May
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it. View quote
Reinhard Selten
Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we? View quote
Henry David Thoreau