"Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything."

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Gregory of Nyssa

#Idols Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”
“Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.”
“Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.”
“It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.”
“I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having reactions to things that seem inappropriate, or being happy in an apparently unhappy situation.”
“I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.”
“The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians”
“I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.”

Source : Bernard Levin (1984). “Enthusiasms”, Random House Value Publishing

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