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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
Source : Gustave Flaubert (1951). “Letters”
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“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”
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“I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.”
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“The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.”
Source : "Chelsea Roff: Science Set Free — An Interview with Rupert Sheldrake". Interview with Chelsea Roff, intentblog.com. September 11, 2012. 
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“Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”
Source : Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso
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“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
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“I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.”
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“If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.”
