Digory Kirke famous quotes

Why don't they teach logic at these schools?
-- Digory Kirke

#School #Logic #Teach

There's not much point in finding a magic ring that lets you into other worlds if you're afraid to look at them when you've got there.
-- Digory Kirke

#Other Worlds #Magic #Looks

It's all in Plato, all in Plato: bless me, what do they teach them at those schools!
-- Digory Kirke

#Plato #School #Bless

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.