"Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there."

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Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.55, Oxford University Press

Simon Blackburn

#Way Quotes #World Quotes #Strange Quotes

“Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.”
“Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.”
“For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

Source : Jeri Smith-Ready (2010). “Shade”, p.108, Simon and Schuster
“I'm in love with my animal friends.”
“A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.”
“True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.”
“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”
“It definitely sometimes feels like a suit that I wish I could zip off. But I donâ€™t feel bad about any of the things Iâ€™ve gone through, whether itâ€™s divorce or breakups or anything like that, because thatâ€™s all part of the life journey, and I have those experiences just like anyone else. And I think it deepens what you tap into creatively.”

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