"Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Knowing Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.”
“You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner.”
“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”
“The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.”
“I've been thinking of trying to de-caricaturize Donald Trump. I thought it would be fun to try and, since he's already a caricature, to make him normal looking.”
“We live to survive our paradoxes.”
“It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.”
“The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.”

Source : John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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