Susan Neiman famous quotes

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  • If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

  • The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

  • As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

  • A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

  • Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

  • My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

  • How long does getting thin take?

  • Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

  • The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

  • A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.