"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Believe Quotes #Eye Quotes #Light Quotes

“But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.”
“I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.”
“Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.”
“The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.”

Source : "Nature as it is" by Jacob Deschin, New York Times, February 3, 1952.
“The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.”
“I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.”
“Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.”
“There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

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