"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols."

-- Morris Raphael Cohen

#Philosophy Quotes #Idols Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.100, Counterpoint Press
“Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.”
“My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that.”
“He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself”
“The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.”
“I am the entertainer, I've come to do my show You've heard my latest record, it's been on the radio It took me years to write it, they were the best years of my life It was a beautiful song but it ran too long If you're gonna have a hit you gotta make it fit So they cut it down to 3:05.”
“...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.”

Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.”

Source : "Me, Myself and I". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1989.

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