"To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity."

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Source : Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.493, Routledge

Brand Blanshard

#Thinking Quotes #Currents Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.”

Source : Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook
“The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.”
“The only way to isolate specific back muscles - whether it is upper. or lower back - or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection.”
“I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.”
“You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch.' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.”
“Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation.”

Source : Craig Davidson, Linda Carey, Louise Carey (2012). “Sarah Court”, p.106, ChiZine
“My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.”

Source : Alexander Agassiz (1888). “A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steameer "Blake", in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and Along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880”
“You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to chase down a fly to get rid of it - you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can't dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.”

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