"It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think."

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Source : Ruth Rendell (1993). “Inspector Wexford”

Ruth Rendell

#Philosophy Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Broads Quotes

“Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.”
“India has always maintained that there will be no third party in Indo-Pak talks. Hurriyat cannot be a party.”
“I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.”
“I left Real Madrid for the same reason Di Maria did. We work hard but only others get the praise.”
“When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.”
“We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely”
“Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Oct 23, 2016
“There's an old saying in Tennessee â€” I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee â€” that says, fool me once, shame on â€” shame on you. Fool me â€” you can't get fooled again.”

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