"A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane."

-- W. H. Auden

#Insane Quotes #World Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.”
“My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.”
“How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
“I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.”
“Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.”
“Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.”
“Samassi Abou donâ€™t speak the English too good.”
“The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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