"My space chums think my unique hookup with humanity could be evolution's awkward attempt to jump-start itself up again. They're thinking just maybe, going crazy could be the evolutionary process trying to hurry up mind expansion. Maybe my mind didn't snap. Maybe it was just trying to stretch itself into a new shape. The cerebral cortex trying to grow a thumb of sorts."

-- Lily Tomlin

#Crazy Quotes #Unique Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.”
“Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.”
“My Father taught me how to be a man â€“ and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesnâ€™t take, he gives; he doesnâ€™t use force, he uses logic; doesnâ€™t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by whatâ€™s in his heart, not his pants.”
“Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.”
“We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136
“I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.”
“Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?”

Source : Richard Wright (1953). “The Outsider”, New York : Harper
“Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.”

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