"When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result."

-- Marshall McLuhan

#Unique Quotes #Two Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand.”
“I don't know who said 'pictures don't lie.' It couldn't have been a photographer.”

Source : Linda Palmer (2005). “Love Her to Death”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“Life is not stationary. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years all tick away at the same clip for everyone. No age-group can be isolated. None of us can settle into infancy, youth, middle age, or old age. We all grow older, and, incidentally, it is an exciting thought if the accent is on growing. "Though our outward man perish," said Paul, "yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4:16; italics added).”
“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.”
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
“We idealize the transformative life into a life of power, of extraordinary experience, of deep realization. It is none of these things; rather it is a life that is without a trace, a life as it actually is, which is without me.”
“If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”

Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“It is often said that the Church is a crutch. Of course it's a crutch. What makes you think you don't limp?”

You may also like:

Alvin Toffler
Writer
Derrick de Kerckhove
Author
Douglas Coupland
Novelist
Harold Innis
Author
Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher
Neil Postman
Author
Theodor Adorno
Sociologist
Walter Benjamin
Literary critic
Walter J. Ong
Historian