"It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out."

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Source : Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

Irving Stone

#Anger Quotes #Use Quotes #Fuel Quotes

“Honor is the moral conscience of the great.”
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!”

Source : "The Origins of Creativity". Book by Karl H. Pfenninger, ‎Valerie R. Shubik, ‎Bruce Adolphe (p. 50), 2001.
“She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.”
“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics the model of all neo-positivistic thinking lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 24-25), 1947.
“And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.”

Source : Sir Arthur Bryant, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) (1957). “The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff”
“Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.”
“The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.”
“I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.”

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