"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Wind Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Authentic faith cannot help but act.”
“I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.”

Source : Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt (2007). “Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam”, p.219, Arcade Publishing
“Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.”
“My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.”

Source : "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.
“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”
“All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.”
“One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.”
“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”

Source : Curtis L. Carter, Man Ray, Francis M. Naumann (1989). “Man Ray in America”

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