"My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid."

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Source : George Sarton (1952). “A History of Science: Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece”

George Sarton

#Loss Quotes #Self Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with 'Three's Company' and Miss Abigail's Guide Star Joyce DeWitt". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. June 17, 2011.
“I never thought that my work was going to become well-known. It started happening slowly, without my realizing it. But when I did, it was terrifying. I still can't believe that people let me photograph them. The trust is amazing. But I've always put them in a context that is dignified, and that's really important.”
“Animal Rights is now the greatest Social Justice issue since the abolition of slavery.”
“He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.”
“Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.”
“The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.”
“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.”
“I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all.”

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