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“A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.”
Source : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press
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“I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.”
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“After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.”
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“Faith reinvigorates the will, enriches the affections, and awakens a sense of creativeness. Active faith knows no fear, and it is a safeguard to me against cynicism and despair.”
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“I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not.”
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“I find myself only by losing myself.”
Source : Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.106, Cambridge University Press
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“Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.”
Source : "5 Minutes With...British Singer-Songwriter Laura Mvula". Interview with Alicia Cox Thomson, www.flare.com. September 3, 2013.
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“Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?”