"Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue."

-- Benjamin Stillingfleet

#Self Quotes #Important Quotes #Moss Quotes

“When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.”
“We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.”
“Books which are no books.”
“The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?”
“Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.”

Source : "Mass". Book by F. Sionil José, 1973.
“Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.”
“You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.”
“The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.”

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