"To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one."

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Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

Frederick C. Beiser

#Ideas Quotes #Harmony Quotes #Live Well Quotes

“Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls”
“I've always said I want a farmer, not a hunter. Hunters go for the kill and they move on. A farmer nurtures; he watches things grow.”
“Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.”
“Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.”

Source : Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton (1813). “The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway: In Three Volumes”, p.17
“Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.”
“Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.”
“The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.”

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”

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