Quotes
Authors
Muriel Barbery

"But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed."

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.

Muriel Barbery

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“Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.”
“Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.”
“I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.”
“I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are the economy and the environment, understanding of the relationships among these concepts is crucial. This volume does a better job of explaining how to manage both money and nature to ensure humanity's long-term future than any other work I know of. Read and reflect.”
“Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.”
“We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are.”
“If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether or not you were black. So at every moment when we've said, hey, we don't want certain people to vote because they are not educated enough, it is often simply become a way of excluding black and brown people.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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