"A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it."

-- Antonio Damasio

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“Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.47, Cambridge University Press
“I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure â€” that doesn't deter me in the least.”

Source : "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.
“But Iâ€™ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.”
“The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.”
“The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.”
“The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.”
“My favorite tattoo right now is the one on my lower stomach that reads "Almost Famous" because as my career grows I'm still humbled every morning when I look at that tattoo, and I'll always remember how much it sucked to ALMOST be famous.”

Source : Source: imfromcleveland.com
“Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.”

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