"Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use."

-- Julian Jaynes

#Giving Quotes #Use Quotes #Coins Quotes

“Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.”

Source : The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)
“Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Jul 26, 2012
“I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.”
“One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.”
“What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?”
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”

Source : Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard: Olympians”
“When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.”
“Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene...”

You may also like:

Alan Turing
Mathematician
Anatole Broyard
Writer
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Christa Wolf
Literary critic
Daniel Dennett
Philosopher
Donald O. Hebb
Psychologist
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
Orlando Figes
Historian
Susan Jacoby
Author