"I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose."

-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Who I Am Quotes #Choices Quotes #May Quotes

“Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn't necessarily a bad thing to use others' principles - it's difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created - adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.”
“Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.”

Source : Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.126, Macmillan
“I don't like attacking.”
“But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.”
“My first goal would be to reduce the perturbation in the carbon cycle. That would mean using carbon neutral sources of energy, and changing our agricultural practices to be less disruptive and polluting. I'm not talking about a policy here so much as changing the way our infrastructure works. That's why I'm so fascinated with changing the way we build cities, because they are the most developed forms of physical infrastructure for human habitation.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.”
“The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.”

Source : "Existentialism from Dostoyevsky to Sartre". Book by Larry Walter Kaufmann, 1956.
“Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.”

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