"When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher."

-- Rory Sutherland

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Philosopher Quotes

“What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.”
“If people are saying youâ€™re wrong thatâ€™s probably a good sign that youâ€™re a genius.”
“I have never known stage-fright at any time.”
“{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.”
“I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.”
“In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.”
“There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that is a change that is happening in the consumer culture.”
“No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.”

Source : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Alvin Moore, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (1988). “Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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