"Reason deceives us; conscience, never."

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Deceiving Quotes #Reason Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“Cultural anthropology is not valuable because it uncovers the archaic in the psychological sense. It is valuable because it is constantly rediscovering the normal.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1949). “Selected Writings in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.515, Univ of California Press
“I love New York. I love working here.”
“Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.”
“And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.”
“You should have left him to wander,â€ Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. â€œWould you?â€ he asked, and Svengal hesitated. At the end, Toshak had fought well and that counted for a lot of Skandians. â€œNo,â€ he admitted.”
“The positive thing about collaborating is that I cannot get distracted by coding work, because I cannot waste the other collaborator's time in the same way as I can my own. And it's always good to learn how the other person works, learn about techniques, learn social things like: how do you communicate with another person? The music I make with other people I'm much more confident about, I'm a little bit less judgemental of the outcome than with my own stuff because I know it's not only me, it's a more outside of me. Sometimes I even like them better than my own tracks.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale white flower, shimmering as if seen in darkness, or through water. Why did people talk of heaven, she wondered”

Source : Patricia Highsmith (2011). “The Price of Salt”, p.206, She Winked Press
“The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.”

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