"As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires."

-- William Cronon

#Reflection Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.”
“It was a titanic effort.”
“The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.”
“The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.”
“For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"”
“Whatever the problem - be part of the solution”

Source : Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.53, Hachette UK
“It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.”
“Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.”

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