"Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality."

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Source : Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media

Nelson Goodman

#Confusion Quotes #Effort Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.”
“Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 09, 2014
“A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten what you think is. You should be holding onto that tree or rock screaming. Or laughing. Not at absurdity, either: absurdism is just a bourgeois and reactionary nostalgia for good, stable meaning.”
“Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.”
“In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.”
“It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!”
“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
“Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.”

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