"I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form."

-- Patton Oswalt

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Views Quotes

“In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.”
“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Source : Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.235, Georg Olms Verlag
“Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.”
“Loving life is a two-way street... We don't receive care and compassion if we don't extend them to others.”
“Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.”
“Since we tend to see ourselves primarily in the light of our intentions, which are invisible to others, while we see others mainly in the light of their actions, which are all that's visible to us, we have a situation in which misunderstanding and injustice are the order of the day.”
“I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.”
“We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.”

Source : "Literature of the American Indian". Book by Thomas Edward Sanders and Walter W. Peek, p. 294, 1973.

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