"A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul."

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Source : Ayi Kwei Armah, Gwendolyn Brooks (1991). “Very Young Poets”, Third World Pr

Ayi Kwei Armah

#Soul Quotes #Mind Quotes #Path Quotes

“What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?”

Source : Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.6, Verso
“The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.”

Source : Source: www.thestarscoop.com
“I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.”

Source : Roger Sessions (2015). “Roger Sessions on Music: Collected Essays”, p.166, Princeton University Press
“Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable.”
“The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.”

Source : Fragment 103 See Isaiah Berlin 1
“Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?”
“Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.”

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