Nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a succession of stillnesses. Consider this, said the darkness: any...
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Russell Hoban
So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in favour of the world was maintained. As soon as one tried by means of them, to picture consciousness in the process...
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Maurice MerleauPonty
There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is butperception, viewed through various prisms of context.
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Amish Tripathi
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
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Tim LaHaye
More Quotes By Gertrude Stein
You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as welldance.
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a...
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
