"The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures."

-- Peter Kreeft

#Squinting Quotes #Cynical Quotes #Vision Quotes

“It's hard to kill that father-son bond.”
“Scold your children, and they will know what is wrong; but correct them with love, and they will know what is right.”
“My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. When I'm carrying out a performance, it matters, for example, how long I hold one particular gesture or posture. Seriality is very important too. Performance can be used to dilate time or to repeat time. And video, in turn, has its own time.”
“I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" It's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their ***** world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.”

Source : "[Interview] Rick Remender Talks Parallel Universes In ‘Black Science’". Interview with Lonnie Nadler, bloody-disgusting.com. November 26, 2013.
“There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”
“We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and hard-won civil liberties. But first we must be able to bequeath to our children the most fundamental of all rights, which preconditions all others; the right to survival.”

Source : Nobel Price Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1985.
“My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.”
“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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