"I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes."

-- Stanislaw Lem

#Feelings Quotes #Progress Quotes #Use Quotes

“Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.”
“The more you inspire, the more people will inspire you.”
“The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.”
“As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?”
“Super-cali-fragalistic-expiali-docious, Docious-ali-expi-fragalistic-cali-super. Cancun...catch me in the room, eatin' grouper.”
“We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.”

Source : Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand
“Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...”
“There's always this talk of the industry of music and about selling records and whatever, but that ignores probably the majority of music that isn't about trying to sell itself, that isn't about being connected to any industry. There's a huge amount of music where someone just happened to have a tape recorder and turned it on or hit the red button while they were in the back of church or recording something in their front room.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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