"Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling."

-- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

#Animal Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage
“I'd rather be tired than broke!”
“My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of Englandâ€”I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I like the way the old Toyotas look”
“In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price.”
“Your nails are a way to speak your style without having to say a word.”
“Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.”
“Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.”

Source : Jules Feiffer (1963). “Feiffer's Album”

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