Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.
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Robin S. Sharma
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are...
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Sun Tzu
Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
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Stefan Molyneux
The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
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Ray Bradbury
Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
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Amit Kalantri
More Quotes By Harold Bloom
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
