"This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress."

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Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

Nicholas Murray Butler

#Knowledge Quotes #Progress Quotes #Desire Quotes

“What a society deems important is enshrined in its art”
“We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.”
“I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.”
“Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!”

Source : Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press
“I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.”
“Sweat equity is the best startup capital.”
“Solid state I don't like, even though I started it.”
“I married my Japanese wife Mayumi who I'm so happy with, she's been so supportive. I live part time in Japan at her house, so I've been always very influenced by Japan. Since I guess the 70's or so. I've come to appreciate so much of their culture.”

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