"Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it."

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Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.45, Northwestern University Press

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Opposites Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.”
“'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.”
“I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.”
“Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.”
“Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.”
“Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.”

Source : Michael Faraday, Sir William CROOKES (1860). “A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations”, p.3
“When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.”
“Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.”

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