"Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system"

-- Aldous Huxley

#Men Quotes #Irrelevance Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.”

Source : Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.563, Dell
“I'm not denying Christ by not being Christian. I'm a theist, which involves expanding on the Christ narrative.”

Source : Source: www.thedailybeast.com
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.”

Source : Ray Brassier (2007). “Nihil Unbound: Naturalism and Anti-Phenomenological Realism”, Palgrave Macmillan
“I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.”

Source : "The Truth of Poetry". Book by Michael Hamburger, 1969.
“The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.”
“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.”
“Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.”

Source : Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.115, Cosimo, Inc.
“A prolonged future doesn't excite me. It would have to have a point.”

Source : "Fictional character: Robert Conway". "Lost Horizon", www.imdb.com. 1937.

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