"Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment."

-- Evan Esar

#Men Quotes #Trying Quotes #Heredity Quotes

“Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.”
“When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that ideal, I am not for a moment suggesting that art should shun the 'dirt' of the world. On the contrary! the artistic image is always a metonym, where one thing is substituted for another, the smaller for the greater. To tell of what is living, the artist uses something dead; to speak of the infinite, he shows the finite. Substitution... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image.”
“When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.”
“To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.”
“T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.”
“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”
“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
“There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.”

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