"The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas."

-- Terence McKenna

#Ocean Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.”

Source : John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.234, Vintage
“If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.”
“Spirituality is the science of the Soul.”
“Has God no living church? He has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members. . . . While the Lord brings into the church those who are truly converted, Satan at the same time brings persons who are not converted into its fellowship. While Christ is sowing the good seed, Satan is sowing the tares. There are two opposing influences continually exerted on the members of the church. One influence is working for the purification of the church, and the other for the corrupting of the people of God...”
“Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.”

Source : Source: quarterlyconversation.com
“Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.”
“Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.”
“The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.”

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