"It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing the world through pairs of flexible little lenses, periodically supplying themselves with energy by pushing organic substances through holes in their faces, who see nothing fabulous whatever about themselves."

-- Martin Gardner

#Lenses Quotes #Substance Quotes #World Quotes

“Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.”
“To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me.”
“It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.”
“A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.”
“There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.”
“When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.”

Source : Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
“Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.”
“Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.”

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