"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

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Iris Murdoch

#Shoes Quotes #Boots Quotes #Pairs Quotes

“problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience ...”

Source : Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.104, Basic Books
“I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.”
“We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex”
“I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.”
“In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.”
“Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.”

Source : Philip Kitcher (1982). “Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism”, p.202, MIT Press
“I find so many things to fear and so few to hope ...”

Source : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.279, Cambridge University Press
“There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.”

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