"To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Ignorance Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library
“There is only one thing that could make me near homicidal. Yeah - this is called My Proper Tea.”
“I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.”
“I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold an audience hundreds or thousands of years into the future in circumstances you just cannot imagine. You've got to go very deep into human nature to do that.”
“Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.”
“The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.”

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