"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."

-- Morris West

#Wisdom Quotes #Art Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.”
“The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.”

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.
“I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.”
“Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?”
“I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle of the 70's. And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I'm talking about from that point on are the records that I'm totally involved in.”
“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”
“Never put business before family,”
“'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.”

Source : "The thought: A logical inquiry" by Gottlob Frege in "Readings in the Philosophy of Language" edited by Peter Ludlow, (p. 27), 1997.

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