"Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue."

-- Robin G. Collingwood

#Issues Quotes #Thank God Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.”
“I'm not against TV; I don't go on the morning talk shows because I'm not invited. If I was, I might go.”
“From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.”
“People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.”
“We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.”

Source : Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra
“It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning.”
“Bernard Harris is a great example of the American success story. In Dream Walker he describes how he is trying to pass on his experience and success to the next generation -- we can all learn from his real life story.”

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