"The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Imperfection Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.”
“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look upâ€”many people feel small, because theyâ€™re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.”

Source : "Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the most astounding fact in the universe" by Elizabeth Flock, www.washingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.
“Optimism is the foundation of courage.”
“But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.”
“Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.”
“Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books
“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”

Source : "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.
“The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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