"The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns."

-- Dorothy L. Sayers

#Giving Quotes #Generations Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”

Source : Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
“The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I make my own books to find my way through the old stories.”
“Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.”
“The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.”
“Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.”
“And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan)”
“The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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