"There is nothing more powerful than the made up mind."

-- Lewis Gordon

#Powerful Quotes #Mind Quotes #Made Quotes

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!”

Source : "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.
“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.”
“A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.”
“Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.”
“... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.”
“Limits exist only in the souls of those who do not dream.”
“Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.”
“People say: But photographs are all lies. That's not the point. The lie is a truth, too. How the hell are we going to know what Kissinger looks like? Well, the photograph tells us one version; I'm trying to tell it also, but differently.”

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