"There are no signposts in the sea."

-- Vita Sackville-West

#Sea Quotes #Choices Quotes #Signposts Quotes

“I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.”
“Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.”
“I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.”
“Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven.”
“Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press
“There's really not much conscious thought involved when I record. I just kind of record what feels good. I'm not trying to make it sound like anything.”
“Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.”
“Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.”

Source : Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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