"Our truth is the intersection of independent lies"

-- Richard Levins

#Lying Quotes #Independent Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.”
“A rise of 5C would be a temperature the world has not seen for 30 to 50 million years. We've been around only 100,000 years as human beings. We don't know what that's like.”
“She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.”
“If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career”
“The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.”

Source : Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”
“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”

Source : Leszek Kolakowski (1997). “Modernity on Endless Trial”, p.158, University of Chicago Press
“We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?”
“What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.”

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