"You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others"

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Steven Erikson

#Apes Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Source Quotes

“Everybody has had the experience of something they love - whether it's a pop song or a painting or a movie - feeling so perfect to them that it's almost like it came from another planet. It has nothing to do with ordinary life, which is very plain. And there's something depressing about that in a way, because you feel like you're this small little human, and you feel like it has nothing to do with you.”
“The data that can bear on the confirmation of perceptual hypotheses includes, in the general case, considerably less than the organism may know.”

Source : "Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, 1983.
“Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.”
“Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.”
“The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.”
“The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.”
“People can smile even when terrified.”
“When people hear the word â€œbeautifulâ€, they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.”

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