Buts Quotes (page 55)

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• technology
• humanity
• skin

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying... Terence McKenna

• evening
• happening
• happened

But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen. Ken Kesey

• light
• lights
• softness

But soft, what light yonder window breaks... William Shakespeare

• feeling
• crying
• dead

But I'm not dead!" Tereza cried. "I can still feel!"So can we," the corpses laughed. Milan Kundera

• love
• personal
• best

But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best two people could was what really mattered. Bernard Malamud

• good
• book
• reasonableness

but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself John Milton

• flower
• autumn
• tree

But the trees were gorgeous in their autumnal leafiness - the warm odours of flowers and herb came sweet upon the sense. Elizabeth Gaskell

• logic
• manly
• justified

But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• love
• almost love
• loves

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. Virginia Woolf

• thankful
• walking
• thanks

But let's face it, the world of sex is weird no matter how you look at it. I mean-fourteen hours after you've had your face smashed into someone's genitals, you're walking down the street with the boy as though that were all "just fine, thank you, how are you! Carrie Fisher

• beautiful
• imagination
• beauty

But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress? because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth whil? L. M. Montgomery

• love
• intelligent
• end

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence Winifred Holtby

• mountain
• thoughts
• blue

But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side an unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountain, he thought how large and strange the world was and felt frightened and small. C. S. Lewis

• winter
• autumn
• leaving

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North") Yevgeny Zamyatin

• dark
• darkness
• knowing

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything. Samuel Beckett