"But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center of his existence. Thus we are cleverest where knowledge matters least...."

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Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.192, Courier Corporation

Hermann Weyl

#Men Quotes #Mind Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.”
“Once you subscribe to an ideological dogma as a solution to certain grievances, it then frames your mindset.”

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“We're all in this together. It's okay to be honest. It's okay to ask for help. It's okay to say you're stuck, or that you're haunted or that you can't begin to let go. We can all relate to those things. Screw the stigma that says otherwise. Break the silence and break the cycle, for you are more than just your pain. You are not alone. And people need other people.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.103, Penguin
“I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.”
“Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.”
“I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.”
“Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.”
“Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.”

Source : Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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