"History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past."

-- Julian Jaynes

#Moving Quotes #Learning Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”
“We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.”
“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness; chaotic, confused, vulnerability to inform yourself.”

Source : "How to Operate Your Brain". Documentary, a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music, 1994.
“Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.”
“Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.”
“I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair.”
“The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.”
“Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.”

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