"There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order."

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Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”

Hugh Kingsmill

#Order Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”
“The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.”
“To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.”

Source : "Kindergarten Chats". Book by Louis Sullivan, ch. 36: Another City, 1901.
“United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?”
“there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.”
“But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.”
“Let go of who's right and focus on what's right”
“And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.”

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