"Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world."

-- Alan Watts

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“Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.”
“The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.”
“Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.”
“Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.”
“The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.”
“Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.”

Source : "Talking Official GOP Agenda with Rep. Cathy McMorris, Gov. Bob McDonnell". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. August 27, 2012.
“It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.”
“Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.”

Source : Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.139, Hachette UK

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