"We have faith in the photograph not only because it works on a physically descriptive level, but in a broader sense because it confirms our sense of omnipresence as well as the validity of the material world."

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Source : Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”

Fred Ritchin

#World Quotes #Levels Quotes #Have Faith Quotes

“The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.”
“...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...”
“Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.”
“A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.”
“This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.”
“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”
“A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.”

Source : Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House prologue (1975)

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