"All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Ideas Quotes #Soul Quotes #Age Quotes

“If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.”
“Trivers, pursuing his theory of the emotions to its logical conclusion, notes that in a world of walking lie detectors the best strategy is to believe your own lies. You canâ€™t leak your hidden intentions if you donâ€™t think they are your intentions. According to his theory of self-deception, the conscious mind sometimes hides the truth from itself the better to hide it from others. But the truth is useful, so it should be registered somewhere in the mind, walled off from the parts that interact with other people.”
“If you're straight, if you're gay - hey, if you're a horse - and I appeal to you, great!”
“An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.”
“This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping...”

Source : John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.30, Macmillan
“If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories”
“Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.”
“Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.”

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