"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."

-- Plato

#May Quotes #Deceiving Quotes #Said Quotes

“Itâ€™s impossible to monitor every thought we have. Researchers tell us that we have about sixty thousand thoughts a day. Can you imagine how exhausted youâ€™d feel trying to control all sixty thousand of those thoughts? Fortunately thereâ€™s an easier way and itâ€™s our feelings. Our feelings let us know what weâ€™re thinking.”
“The sacred influence of light appears.”
“My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not believing. â€œItâ€™s a cat,â€ I said, winning the Pulitzer prize for incredible intellect.”
“When I'm doing shows I don't need much from a city. All I'm looking for is a good meal and a decent spot to have a couple drinks.”
“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.”
“When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?”

Source : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.429, Macmillan
“Rich people march on Washington every day.”
“The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.”

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