"Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'."

-- Alain de Botton

#Thinking Quotes #Disrespect Quotes #Gazing Quotes

“But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.”
“If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.”
“Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.”

Source : "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.
“Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.”
“People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.”

Source : PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1878). “MODERN FRENCHMEN”
“Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.”
“Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.”
“How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?”

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