"For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own."

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Source : Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr

Paul Engle

#Summer Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Vacation Quotes

“Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.”
“There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.”

Source : The Caxtons Pt XI, Ch. VII
“A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.”
“'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.”
“...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?”
“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...”

Source : James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage
“I have a heart with room for every joy .”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.156

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