"An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world."

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Soseki Natsume

#Artist Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #World Quotes

“Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.”
“God is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death.”
“Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.â€¨”
“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”
“Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.”
“There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.”
“I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.”
“...knowledge is the cause of human progress.”

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