"The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights."

-- Richard Schmid

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“There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.”
“I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.”
“It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.”
“My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.”

Source : 'Diary' 19 December 1662
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.”
“The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.”

Source : Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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