"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."

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Source : Ralph Cudworth, Sarah Hutton (1996). “Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With A Treatise of Freewill”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

Ralph Cudworth

#Running Quotes #Circles Quotes #Mind Quotes

“In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:â€”feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love....”
“We sat and kissed and kissed until our lips were bloody. I could have gone on kissing her for a year.”
“Who's world is this, the world is yours.”
“I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.”
“Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.”
“Never do anything to a ***** with your teeth that you wouldn't do to an expensive waterproof wristwatch.”
“Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.”
“I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.”

Source : "With Friends Like These". Interview with Warren Littlefield, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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