Quotes
Authors
Konrad Lorenz

"Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?"

-- Konrad Lorenz

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“I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.”

Source : FaceBook post by Simon Pegg from Aug 11, 2014
“And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.”
“We should do an Adorno reading on Skrillex and vodka sales in Vegas. It's definitely interesting. What's interesting in that music for me is the harmonic density in some crazy melodic line that sounds like some Michael Bay film eating itself. Which I enjoy in the same way I'll watch a cracked up Hollywood movie. Yet rhythmically, I guess that music just funnels more into predictable cash outcomes.”
“I would want to know that my daughter is going to enjoy a long, happy and healthy life.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“We live a dying dream / If you know what I mean”
“In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.”
“Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I'm on a horse.”

Source : "Live Q&A: Quiz the advertising execs" by Alison White, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.
“Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.”

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