"We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail."

-- Fredrik Bajer

#Art Quotes #War Quotes #Long Quotes

“If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.”

Source : Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium
“...what one commonly takes as 'the reality,' including the reality of one's own individual person, by no means signifies something fixed, but rather something that is ambiguous-that there is not only one, but that there are many realities, each comprising also a different consciousness of the ego.”

Source : "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.
“In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.”

Source : Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.161, Open Road Media
“Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain.”
“I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead”
“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.”
“It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.”
“The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.”

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