"Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Memories Quotes #Mind Quotes #Arise Quotes

“You can't live a healthy life on a sick planet.”

Source : "How Seventh Generation Made Sustainable Cleaning Products Mainstream". Interview with Meghan French Dunbar, consciouscompanymedia.com. July 4, 2015.
“Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.”
“By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.”
“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the â€œpastâ€ has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.”

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press
“For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”

Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
“If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will become increasingly dense ... Blond hair actually bestows intelligence. In the case of fair people, less nourishment is driven into the eyes and hair; it remains instead in the brain and endows it with intelligence. Brown- and dark-haired people drive the substances into their eyes and hair that the fair people retain in their brains.”
“Our business is with life, not death.”

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