"You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it."

-- Tony Kushner

#Mind Quotes #Existence Quotes #Critical Quotes

“Let patriotism have its high days and freedom its monuments, and let the triumphs of navigators and generals be annually observed; but surely, beyond all these, a season that stands for as much to the race as Easter does may well be remembered each year with songs and flowers and with every mark of gratitude and of loftiest jubilation.”
“All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.”

Source : Song: Mercy Street For Anne Sexton
“The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.”
“I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.”
“It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.”
“Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.”

Source : "The Catastrophist" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theatlantic.com. January 2010.
“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”
“There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.”

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