"Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes."

-- Gloria Naylor

#Father Quotes #Son Quotes #Daddy Quotes

“People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.”
“My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.”
“Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.”

Source : Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.60, JHU Press
“It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.”
“Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me. It doesn't have to be someone particularly nice. You don't have to like them. You don't even have to want to work with them. You might even want to punch them in the nose. Sometimes just making that connection is its own experience, its own reward.”
“When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.”
“The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.”
“One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.”

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