"Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain."

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Source : Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

Clifton Fadiman

#Book Quotes #Dark Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“You don't need any brains to listen to music.”
“Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.”
“Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“I should never have been convicted of anything more serious than running a cemetery without a license.”
“Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.”
“War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.”

Source : Justus von Liebig (1863). “The natural laws of husbandry: Edited by John Blyth”, p.389
“God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.”

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