"value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters."

-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Consciousness Quotes #Values Quotes

“There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”

Source : "Hollow City". Book by Ransom Riggs, January 14, 2014.
“The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.”

Source : "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.
“Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.”
“You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.”
“I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport ,the metal detector goes off.”
“Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.”
“One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.”
“Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.”

Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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