"Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature."

-- Antonio Gramsci

#Men Quotes #Mind Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”
“England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.”
“Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.”
“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from Dec 18, 2016
“There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.”
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!”
“I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.”

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