"perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Wish Quotes #Conformity Quotes #Individualism Quotes

“We are linked by our shadows, not by our light.”
“There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.”
“Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.”

Source : Niklas Luhmann, William Rasch (2002). “Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity”, p.145, Stanford University Press
“You can't make chicken salad out of chicken feathers”
“When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.”

Source : "Mathematics and the Imagination".
“The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror,”
“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.”
“I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.”

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