"Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself."

--

Source : Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

Mina Loy

#Prejudice Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Mercy Quotes

“The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.”
“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”
“The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.”
“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.”
“Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.”
“I can pinpoint the moment when my first band recorded, when I was 14 and 15 years old. I always enjoyed writing songs and playing, but there was something about going in and capturing it that felt very Zen and perfect for me. A light switch went on and I just realized that's where my musical capacity was the most suited. I just followed on blind faith that that was like a calling for me.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.”
“We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness sounds very reasonable, but it often conflicts with our gut reactions. Philosophers have spent the last century or so finding examples where our intuition runs counter to this idea and have taken these as signals that something is wrong with this philosophy. But when you look at the psychology behind those examples, they become less compelling. An alternative is that our gut reactions are not always reliable.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

You may also like: