"When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out..."

-- Eugene Ionesco

#Philosophical Quotes #Light Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.”
“Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.”
“Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?”
“New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.”
“People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway”

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“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.”
“A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.”
“Success will not be yours unless you measure your dream. And guess what? Once you have measured it, people will say it's too big for you. That's when you can say, 'That's not true, it's so small it even fits in my head'.”

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