"In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime."

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Source : John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

John Desmond Bernal

#Giving Up Quotes #Simple Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.”
“Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.”
“Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.”
“My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.”

Source : James Turrell, Julia Brown, Craig E. Adcock, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1985). “Occluded front, James Turrell”, Lapis Pr
“A fundamental condition of Being is slavery. Man is the slave of God, and God that of His vanity.”
“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

Source : Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.77, Hachette UK
“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”
“I'm obsessively detail-oriented.”

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