Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. – Arthur Schopenhauer Category: Stubbornness
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. – Michel de Montaigne Category: Stubbornness
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. – Harriet Beecher Stowe Category: Stubbornness
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to Literature, summer the tissues and blood. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866 Category: Winter
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. – Christopher Lasch Category: Age
