"We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Moving Quotes #Self Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.”
“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

Source : "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.
“Learn to think imperially.”

Source : Speech at Guildhall, January 19, 1904.
“I always saw myself as a big-nosed, big-eared kid. I've never tried to kind of capitalize on that stuff. I think a lot of people do when they can.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I hate everything that comes from the United States. I hate it with all my strength.”
“My hair takes a while to get right, I use wax to get it to stand up.”
“Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.”
“I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.”

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