"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."

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Gilbert Highet

#Book Quotes #Mind Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I am the cute one! She's just my sister.”
“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”
“If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.”
“We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.”
“I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.”
“A lot of actors on film sets... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.”
“There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.”
“Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.”

Source : "Philothea: A Grecian Romance". Book by Lydia Maria Child, 1836.

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