"Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness"

-- Robin G. Collingwood

#Art Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Community Quotes

“Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.”
“Walt Disney said everything he had ever accomplished was a result of Mickey Mouse. Mickey was Walt's alter ego and he was originally modeled after Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp character. So without Chaplin, who knows what Mickey would have become!”
“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”
“Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we should consider them kinfolk of ours, relatives. If they are relatives of ours, then we should treat them with more respect than if they are not.”
“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.”
“However far back we may be able to trace the - so to speak - internal history of the Universe, there can be no question of arguing that this or that external origin is either probable or improbable. We do not have, and we necessarily could not have, experience of other Universes to tell us that Universes, or Universes with these particular features, are the work of Gods, or of Gods of this or that particular sort.”

Source : Antony Flew (1984). “God, freedom, and immortality: a critical analysis”
“Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the American people and Congress. See, apparently, you're only allowed to do that when invading Iraq.”
“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

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