"What the teachers digest, the pupils eat."

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Source : Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

Karl Kraus

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“The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart
“Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.”
“Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.”

Source : "'Chez les cubistes' (in 'Bulletin de la Vie Artistique')". "Juan Gris: His Life and Work". Book by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1946.
“You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.”
“Let none of you have a soul which is barren and without fruit. Let nobody be unloving or unreceptive to the spiritual seed. May each of you eagerly accept the celestial seed, the word of salvation (cf. Lk. 8:11), and by your own efforts bring it to perfection as a heavenly work and fruit pleasing to God. Let no one make a beginning of a good work which brings no fruit to perfection (cf. Lk. 8:14), nor declare his faith in Christ only with His tongue.”
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Source : Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing
“The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is something where you think, "Oh, that sounds like an interesting idea but I don't love it," then I can't do my job well.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.”

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