"You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth."

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Source : Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Humphrey Carpenter

#Stars Quotes #Moving Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.”
“One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.”
“I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that as a vehicle to speculate about hominoid origins, an event for which there is no recognized fossil record. Hence, an opportunity to exercise some imagination.”
“For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.”
“That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.”
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
“I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?”
“Real action is in silent moments.”

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