"Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them."

-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Discovery Quotes #Illumination Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.”
“To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage
“I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.”
“Being a writer is a good, good thing.”
“Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!”
“Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.”
“The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.”
“I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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