"Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship."

-- William James

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“Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple.”
“No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.”
“Next time I spank a girl during sex, I'll say, this is going to hurt me more than it will you.”
“It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.”
“In God we trust; all others pay cash.”

Source : Jean Shepherd (1978). “The Phantom of the Open Hearth: A Film for Television Co-Ordinated by Leigh Brown”, Doubleday Books
“I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War. ... If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what's called a detail.”

Source : "The Journal of Historical Review", 2002.
“Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.”

Source : Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill
“And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.”

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