#Song Quotes #Plato Quotes #Struggle Quotes
“Not many people ask me out.”
“True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.”
“I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.”
“We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.”
“This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.”
“God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.”
“I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.”
“In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.”
Anatole France Poet
Gerald of Wales
Johannes Scotus Eriugena Philosopher