“What I’m trying to make you know, not in your forebrain but in your marrow, is that reality never conforms very well to the textbooks, and sometimes it doesn’t conform at all.”
The Sorrow of Odin the Goth (p. 387)
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“To conform is to lose your soul”
Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End
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“If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Discourses on the Condition of the Great
Context: If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize, by a more secret but truer thought, that you have nothing naturally superior to them.
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Rock and Roll Rebel.
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)
Randy Pausch (1960–2008) American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Time Management (2007)
“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Steven Brust (1955) American fantasy and science fiction author
Paths of the Dead (2002)
Context: To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.