"Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress"

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Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.18, Verso

Paul Feyerabend

#Discovery Quotes #Progress Quotes #Language Quotes

“We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”
“I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.”
“It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.”
“I love the fact that trying is respected. The American Dream: if you try, if you build it, they will come. I love that. It's honorable.”
“Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.128, Vintage
“A fish cannot drown in water, A bird does not fall in air. In the fire of creation, God doesn't vanish: The fire brightens. Each creature God made must live in its own true nature; How could I resist my nature, That lives for oneness with God?”
“I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to capitalize, "financializing" every moment of our enslaved lives. Then when China or somebody takes over, then it will be [them] doing those things that I'll be against.”
“I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.”

Source : "Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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