"God is not an encyclopedia whose task it is to satisfy our curiosity."

-- Jacques Ellul

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“The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.”
“Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.”
“Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.”

Source : Eric Gill, Christopher Skelton (1993). “An Essay on Typography”, p.121, David R. Godine Publisher
“With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?”
“One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."”
“Inspiration comes from doing.”
“As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.”

Source : Martin Gardner (1999). “The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener”, p.64, Macmillan

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