Dogmatists of all kinds — scientific, economic, moral, as well as political — are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist.
~ Rollo May
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Category Archives: 0459 – Quote Unquote
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
~ William Gibson
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I believe in God, only I spell it “Nature”.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
~ James Baldwin
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If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
~ Mark Twain
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No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Great souls endure in silence.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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As we no longer have an economic policy that is managed democratically, it should not be surprising that it produces unfair outcomes. Nor should it be surprising that in the wake of the mortgage crisis, Covid, the war in Ukraine and so-called Bidenflation, this unfairness would give rise to what Wolfgang Streeck calls “tendencies toward deglobalization” — such as those that emerged with a vengeance on November 5, 2024.
~ Christopher Caldwell
via This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
published by The New York Times on November 28, 2024
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There’s no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.
~ Henry James
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