"We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions."

-- James F. Cooper

#Differences Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Merit Quotes

“Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.”
“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.”
“Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.”
“I fainted last night! Luckily I was going to bed at the time so I didn't get hurt.”
“More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.”
“That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.”

Source : Edward Gordon Craig (2008). “On the Art of the Theatre”, p.41, Routledge
“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”

Source : Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.122, Spectra

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