"Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."

-- Voltaire

#Inspiring Quotes #Today Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.”
“An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.”
“We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming”
“As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.”
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
“Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.”
“The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media

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