"That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire."

-- Philippe de Commines

#Good Sense Quotes #Acquire Quotes

“I always look forward to going for a walk in Rushcutters Bay Park, right down to the bottom where you can look in the clear water of the harbour. I use that time to clear my head and really focus my thoughts.”
“So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness; consciousness creates reality. Actually truth is inclusive, neither black nor white, nor a shade of grey. Indeed, truth is a multicolored spectrum, a beautiful hologram!”
“Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.”

Source : Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.34, Routledge
“In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?”
“Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.”
“When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.”
“I had a long distance relationship going while we were writing the album so a lot of it is about that constant struggleâ€” you look up at the moon and wonder if that person is looking at it too. I was trying to write love songs that werenâ€™t sappy Ben Affleck movie songs, but kind of a â€¦ manâ€™s love songs”
“Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.”

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