"I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities."

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Anna Journey

#Thinking Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.88, Courier Corporation
“We French-Canadians belong to one country, Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries, one here and one across the sea.”
“I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.”
“Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.”
“In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.”
“Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.”
“I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.”
“The goal is not to simulate reality right now by going crazy. The goal is to prepare for reality by going slowly”

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