"What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value."

-- Yevgeny Zamyatin

#Thinking Quotes #Make You Think Quotes #Age Quotes

“Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.16, e-artnow
“I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.”
“I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.”
“Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.”
“Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.”
“So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.”
“Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.”
“History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.”

Source : John D. Barrow (1992). “Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being”, Oxford University Press, USA

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