Yet Quotes

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon.

This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863…

Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.