"Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"

-- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa

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“My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.”

Source : Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.51, University of Chicago Press
“When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?”
“It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.”
“What you discover about lifeâ€™s shell game is that itâ€™s hardest to follow the pea when youâ€™re the pea.”
“Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.”
“Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.”
“When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.”

Source : "About Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth, Creativity, Telepathy and Artificial Intelligence". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.
“More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.”

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