"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Fall Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Vision Quotes

“But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.”

Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.
“Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites who arrogantly presume to know and dictate how we should all live and work.”
“Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!”
“Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.”
“Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.”
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社
“I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.”
“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”

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