"You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes."

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David Markson

#Sex Quotes #Reading Quotes #Two Quotes

“Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.”
“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”
“Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.”
“I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.”
“When I then went to Welling I had to think about the possibility of getting another job outside of football. If that hadn't worked out then I would probably have joined the family building firm, working as a â€˜brickieâ€™ or something like that. It is a big leap to be playing in the Champions League final - the biggest game of my career - but after what I've been through to get here, it holds no fears for me.”
“I believe in and love the populist, nationalist, antiglobalist rebellion happening all over the West.”
“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics the model of all neo-positivistic thinking lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 24-25), 1947.
“If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.”

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