"There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory."

-- Pauline Kael

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“Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.”
“Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.”
“There can be no truce between science and religion.”

Source : "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.
“Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.”

Source : Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.113, David R. Godine Publisher
“A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.”
“I don't believe in one ideal beauty.”
“I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.”
“Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.”

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