". . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind."

-- Baruch Spinoza

#Order Quotes #Mind Quotes #Function Quotes

“When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
“Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.”

Source : Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.161, Penguin
“You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.”
“The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.”
“We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.”
“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”
“History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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