"The best evidence of a mind is when you change it"

-- Roger Scruton

#Mind Quotes #Evidence Quotes

“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press
“The chief source of problems is solutions.”
“I think all families have these secrets, and it's sometimes the strangest things that bring them out. That was part of my interest in the heatwave, in heat as a catalyst for uncovering truths. I was reading Alice in Wonderland to one of my kids recently, and I remembered that it starts on a really hot day. Alice falls asleep because of the heat; the whole story is predicated on falling into a heat-fueled dream.”
“People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.”
“Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.”
“I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.”

Source : "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.
“I thought I recognized you." Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.”
“Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.”

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