"You should never employ your intellect but only that it is not essential to exercise it in order to live a humane life. Language permeates all of life, of course, and one's mind is essential to it, but that does not mean intellectuality should transcend all of life."

-- Talal Asad

#Mean Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Order Quotes

“A big silvery janitor. Penny, this canâ€™t be how the universe works.â€ â€œIn the Order we call it â€˜inverse profundity.â€™ Weâ€™ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.”
“The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.”
“I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.”
“I was a hardworking junkie. Heroin doesn't affect your brain. It doesn't touch your thinking. It's purely physical.”
“Celebrity culture is something that pains me.”
“You donâ€™t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.”
“Modern morality is all about perception.”
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.”

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