"The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance"

-- Richard Hooker

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“The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!”
“Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.”

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “The Art of Zen Meditation”, p.8, Open Road Media
“The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was "Deeds not Words," and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.”
“I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.”
“I never thought of it like that. I always thought of you as a part of me, like my own eyes or my own hands. You don't go around thinking 'I love my eyes, I love my hands', do you? But think what it would be like to live without your eyes or your hands. To be mad, or to be blind. I can't talk about it. It's how I feel.”
“The world in which the kestrel moves, the world that it sees, is, and always will be, entirely beyond us. That there are such worlds all around us is an essential feature of our world.”

Source : Mary Midgley, David Midgley (2005). “The Essential Mary Midgley”, p.375, Psychology Press
“The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.”

Source : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.50, Cambridge University Press
“Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.”

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