"Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it."

-- Alan Watts

#Looks Quotes #World Quotes #Environment Quotes

“Art is life seen through man's inner craving for perfection and beauty-- his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagining. Art accounts for at least a third of our civilization, and it is one of the artist's principal duties to do more than merely record life or nature. To the artist is given the privilege of pointing the way and inspiring towards a better life.”
“With the horses, you canâ€™t let them call the shot part of the time and then you call the shot part of the time. Theyâ€™re not really designed to be your leader, but they can be a great partner, but you need to lead, and they need to respect you and respond with respect. Donâ€™t think of respect as a dirty word. You need to respect them as well.”
“In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.”
“Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.”
“I was never a prodigy.”
“Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?”
“I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.”
“...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.”

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