"The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice."

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Source : Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Truth Quotes #Practice Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.”
“I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”
“Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried and petrified during ages of which we have no record. It seems likely that this habitable world was in former days uninhabitable and, indeed, submerged beneath the ocean. Then, becoming exposed little by little, it petrified in the course of ages.”
“Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.”
“God wants us to walk in the miraculous!”
“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”
“History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.”
“God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.”

Source : "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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