"Engineers, medical people, scientific people, have an obsession with solving the problems of reality, when actually ... once you reach a basic level of wealth in society, most problems are actually problems of perception."

-- Rory Sutherland

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Reality Quotes

“The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.”
“For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.”
“I'm in a body, and when my sleep ends, I'm awake. I don't really understand the... that's not really a choice. I mean unless I chose to stay in bed, but I'd still be awake.”
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”

Source : Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press
“I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.”
“Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?”
“Heiresses are never jilted.”
“A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.151

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