"Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance."

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Source : Eric Temple Bell (1930). “Debunking Science”

Eric Temple Bell

#Imagination Quotes #Mind Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“I want to have my own line and collection.”
“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
“Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?”
“Let's try to bring more style into basics, and let's touch real people all around the world, people who don't really care who Christophe Lemaire is.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We're in a time when bashing is the norm - especially on social media, where everybody's online and no one interacts face-to-face. There's a quote I found yesterday - it was hilarious: "People need to chill, like literally, we're floating in space on a giant rock we can't leave. Look at the stars or something instead of being awful." You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“I very much believe in rescuing animals, not buying them.”

Source : "Life After 50: Adopt A Pet, Get Fit?" by Barbara Hannah Grufferman, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2011.
“There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”

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