"Enlightenment isn't found with a full stomach, or on a soft pillow."

-- Conrad Anker

#Enlightenment Quotes #Found Quotes #Stomach Quotes

“I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.”
“The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.”
“That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.”
“Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing.”
“Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.”
“Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.”
“Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.”
“I was quite nauseous every day at school - I had some real stomach problems. The thing that saved me was sitting in church and trying to get into these statues and windows and colors. Truly, it transported me. And I can see it now in my own work - my pictures have kind of that look.”

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