"Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas."

-- Myles Horton

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.”
“I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.”
“The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.”
“It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.”
“Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.”
“The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”

Source : Speech to the Penguins, 1949.
“The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.”
“Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.”

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