"Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall."

-- Dwight Longenecker

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“And the whole is greater than the part.”

Source : "Euclid's Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8". Book by Euclid,
“Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.”
“Life imitates art but art intimidates life.”
“Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe, a small error is essential for enhancing existence. Without error, there is no movement. Death follows.”

Source : Jacques Lecoq (2013). “The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique): Teaching Creative Theatre”, p.21, A&C Black
“God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.”
“From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.”
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be livedâ€”forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.”
“Before we understand how not to hurt, we must contribute to the peacefulness of it all, in that if we participate in any way, in anything that hurts, anything that involves killing and hurting, then we're hurting ourselves because we're not islands, we're all connected regardless of tradition, and because of that we're all connected.”

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