"Learning is the art of ignoring."

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Source : Elias Canetti (1964). “Auto-da-fé”, New York : Stein and Day

Elias Canetti

#Art Quotes #Learning Quotes

“A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.22, Bantam
“My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.”
“The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .”
“People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.”

Source : Interview for the Academy of Achievement, Washington, D. C., June 18, 1999.
“as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled him again. suspended somewhere between cherubs and devils, his quarry ceased to buck, and he spread his wings wide and let the rising wind carry them off across the sky, until even the predator himself had lost every hope of returning home. within that one embrace, [he] became aware of a feeling of certainty he had not thought possible for anyone - even the virtuous. with her in his arms, all other women, past, present, and future, simply ceased to exist.”
“If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.”
“When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.”
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.”

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