"Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul."

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Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.27

William Gilmore Simms

#Philosophy Quotes #Eye Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.”
“From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.”
“Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.”
“When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.”
“No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more intangible and that is the motivation to pick yourself off the ground when you've been totally bloodied and smashed and say, 'Let's fight some more.'.”
“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.”

Source : "Official Art and the Modern Painter". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1959.
“Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live in a media-drenched world floded with junk values. As girls turn from their parents, they turn to this world for guidance about how to be an adult.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.56, Penguin
“Actually, my ideal life would be to have an evergreen tree farm and, every December, I'd load them up and just stand out on the street and sell Christmas trees.”

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