"Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one."

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Source : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

Vernon Lee

#Civilization Quotes #Use Quotes #Barbarians Quotes

“Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.”
“This is a combo between Taco and Burrito, nacho!”
“...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.”

Source : Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The earth has music for those who listen.”
“Iâ€™m not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; Iâ€™m right there with our founding fathers. Iâ€™m a patriot and a Christian, and Iâ€™m moving forth with what they started. But now itâ€™s gotten to where Iâ€™m some kind of nut or Bible beater. I say, so be it. Iâ€™ll still go across the country spreading Godâ€™s Word, like Iâ€™ve done since I was twenty-eight. I may be only one man reading Scripture and quotes, carrying his Bible, and blowing duck calls to crowds, but, hey, it has to start somewhere. Itâ€™s what makes me happy, happy, happy.”
“Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.”
“Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.151, Routledge
“Reality is fabricated out of desire.”

Source : Man Ray, Janus (1980). “Man Ray, the photographic image”, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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