"The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil"

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Life Quotes #Devil Quotes

“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.”
“The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.”

Source : Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”
“Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.”
“A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would ever understand them.”
“A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never memorise what you can look up in a book.”
“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”
“Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.”

Source : John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.626, World Scientific

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