"I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place."

-- Xunzi

#Distance Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Toes Quotes

“The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?”
“Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2004). “The Sunday Philosophy Club”, p.153, Anchor
“I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.”
“But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?”
“How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors”

Source : Bradford Morrow (2011). “The Diviner's Tale”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Debunking certain things is important, first because you question things, which is always healthy, and second because there's a part that has to do with show biz, which is pretty harmless, but there's another part that has to do with people's vulnerability. That needs to be exposed.”
“Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.”
“Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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