"Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the Romans said that "the good is the enemy of the better," so too "the self-evident is the enemy of the very process of clarification or understanding," not to mention the enemy of the "transcendent or ultimate.""

-- Kenny Smith

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going.”
“I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.”

Source : Alaa Al Aswany (2009). “The Yacoubian Building: A Novel”, p.20, Harper Collins
“the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
“Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.”
“It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.”
“Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution”
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.”
“Blessed is this life and I'm going to celebrate being alive!”

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