"Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking."

-- Edward John Carnell

#Thinking Quotes #Used Quotes #Devices Quotes

“How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I've known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I've known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.”
“You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!”
“The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.132, Pendragon Press
“In my experience, the public will forgive mistakes, provided they are acknowledged promptly and a remedial course of action is articulated. Lawyers often get in the way of this, which is a subject I cover in my book: how to deal with obstructionist lawyers in a crisis.”
“And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.”

Source : Knut Hamsun (1969). “Victoria; a love story”
“Pity those who don't feel anything at all”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2015). “A Court of Thorns and Roses”, p.311, Bloomsbury Publishing
“With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.”
“Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.”

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