"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."

-- Maurice Maeterlinck

#Atheism Quotes #May Quotes #Rays Quotes

“Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.”
“I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.”
“I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing.”
“He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.”
“Alexander Liberman was very smart, very elegant. At the end, he didn't have much patience with me because I was a young, anxious, nervous photographer. I worried that I was copying too many other people. And he said, "It's all right to copy people, as long as the people you copy are good and you copy them well."”
“Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.”
“Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.”

Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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