"Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values."

-- Reinhold Niebuhr

#Men Quotes #Profound Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.”
“Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.”
“I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'”
“You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.”
“Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.”
“A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'”
“As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.”
“It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.”

Source : Wilfried Dörstel, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Augenpunkt, Lichtquelle und Scheidewand: die symbolische Form im Werk Marcel Duchamps : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Witzzeichnungen von 1907 bis 1910 und der Radierungen von 1967/68”

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