"Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise."

-- Peter Behrens

#Wise Quotes #Witty Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.”
“I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.”
“Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.”
“The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.”
“Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I don't understand the method of characteristics. Neumann: In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”
“Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.”
“He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heavenâ€”at least in this lifeâ€”was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.”
“Psychohistory, as a science, will always be problem-centered, while history will always remain period-centered. They are simply two different tasks.”

Source : Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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