"The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth."

-- Jose Ortega y Gasset

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“Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.”
“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”
“The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.”
“No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice”
“The appalling and shameful scene ("spectacle", Fr.) of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.
“Sure, companies say they're sensitive to their employees' cultural heritages, but show up on casual Friday wearing a necklace made from the ears of your vanquished enemies and all hell breaks loose.”
“I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.”
“An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. ... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.”

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