"When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses [â€¦]. â€˜The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,â€™ he said."

-- Michel de Certeau

#Dancer Quotes #Stories Quotes #Subtle Quotes

“The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.”
“Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.”
“It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.”
“Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God was not, then He would be found to be in some way circumscribed. So He is everywhere and in everything. In what way is this so? Is He contained not by each part but by the whole? No, because then that would be a body. He embraces and encompasses everything, and is Himself everywhere and also above everything, worshipped by true worshippers in His Spirit and Truth.”
“Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!”

Source : "Fictional character: John Blutarsky (Bluto)". "Animal House", www.imdb.com. July 27, 1978.
“Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?”
“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”

Source : Rebel Passion (1964) ch. 1
“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”

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