"The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man."

-- Jon Elster

#Men Quotes #Goal Quotes #Social Quotes

“Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.”

Source : Twitter post from May 30, 2017
“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.”
“Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.”

Source : "'Mad Men' Star Brian Batt Stands Up for Gay Actors" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. May 13, 2010.
“In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.”
“reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.”
“Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.”
“Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
“I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.”

Source : "Marcel Duchamp: a riotous A-Z of his secret life" by Thomas Girst, www.theguardian.com. April 07, 2014.

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