"What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments."

-- Gilles Deleuze

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Journey Quotes

“Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap.”
“scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books
“If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.”

Source : John Hospers (1971). “Libertarianism: a political philosophy for tomorrow”
“Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.”
“Tolerance is understanding. It is open to new light. Those who are tolerant are always eager to explore viewpoints other than their own.”
“I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.”
“Nothing you believe is true. To know this is freedom.”
“Human language has a vocabulary suited to our daily needs and functions: the shape of any human language maps approximately to the needs and activities of our mundane lives. But few would deny that there is another dimension of human existence which transcends the mundane: call it the soul, the spirit: it is that part of the human frame which sees the shimmer of the numinous.”

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