"Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say."

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Source : Ted Chiang (2016). “Arrival: Film tie-in”, p.195, Pan Macmillan

Ted Chiang

#Ideas Quotes #Brain Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.”
“This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,”

Source : "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.
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“Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that in order to progress we must stretch for something just out of reach--if only for a life that will be more compassionate and decent than the cruelty, paranoia, greed, narrow corporatism, or narcissism we mostly indulge in and find such ample justification for. And so we dream.”
“The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.”

Source : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
“Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right”
“There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.”
“I've been to the top and I believe I've been to the bottom as well.”

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