"Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough."

-- Claude Bernard

#Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.”
“Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.”
“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
“The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.”

Source : Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.10, Shambhala Publications
“It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.”
“We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not extensive ones, it is true; but our own little journeys, away and back again, are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.”
“If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats”
“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... forever growing... can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”

Source : "Music For All Of Us". Book by Leopold Stokowski, 1943.

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