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Every creative act...

Every creative act...

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing,...

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Idealism is fine;...

Idealism is fine;...

Idealism is fine; but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes prohibitive.

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Lovers of air...

Lovers of air...

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of...

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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Reason respects differences,...

Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Source: In...

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Henri Poincare: Ideas rose in...

Henri Poincare: Ideas rose in...

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable...

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Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: Books, not which...

Henry David Thoreau: Books, not which...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man...

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Henry David Thoreau: The words which...

Henry David Thoreau: The words which...

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense...

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Michel de Certeau: As a first...

Michel de Certeau: As a first...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate...

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George Orwell: Advertising is the...

George Orwell: Advertising is the...

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Source: In Quotable...

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Michel Foucault: The judges of...

Michel Foucault: The judges of...

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the...

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Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...

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John Mortimer: The worst fault...

John Mortimer: The worst fault...

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life,...

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Arthur Schomburg: The earliest instruction...

Arthur Schomburg: The earliest instruction...

The earliest instruction was imparted orally, a system still extant in Africa and the Orient. lt trains the mind to...

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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus: When a man...

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a man...

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

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Horatio Nelson: I have always...

Horatio Nelson: I have always...

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only...

It is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Source: Remark to De Pradt...

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