"Philosophy will tell you what to say, eloquence will tell you how to say it"

-- Marcus Cornelius Fronto

#Philosophy Quotes #Eloquence Quotes

“The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.”
“Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.”
“We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage
“You have to trust yourself.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through writing as I do practicing and forming it, the whole system of journalism seems to not yield rewards sustainable as a craft. So few can spend enough time to be serious about it and approach it with confidence and a kind of depth. And that's good on one level, because you have some leveling, that's kind of maybe leveled the petty fiefdoms of undeserving people but it's also made it hard to make a living as a writer.”
“Evolution lies at the heart of biology. It is seamlessly and continuously linked to health research to better understand such conditions as AIDS or bird flu or Parkinson's or cancer or heart disease. Every biomedical experiment, every tiny advance, every major breakthrough ultimately connects to the principles first postulated by Darwin.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”

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