"If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed."

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Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Zoos Quotes #Zebras Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.”
“Not. Your. Fault." I nodded again, holding onto his words like they were redemption.”
“There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.”
“You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.”
“A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.”
“There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.”
“Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 58), 1937.
“Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.”

Source : "Tradition: Hiroshi Sugimoto". ART21 interview, art21.org.

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