"The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds."

-- R. Scott Bakker

#Brain Quotes #World Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war....”
“If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.”
“I stayed sober for this?”
“In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.
“Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done”
“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”
“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”
“Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.”

Source : Carl Van Vechten (1996). “The Tiger in the House”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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