"The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding."

-- George Santayana

#Heart Quotes #Eye Quotes #Men Quotes

“Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.”
“The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.”
“Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.”
“Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.”
“Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the other side of the story - the side that reflects poorly on the government - somehow gets lost.”
“The indulgence in grief is a blunder.”
“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”

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