"Women make us poets, children make us philosophers."

-- Malcolm De Chazal

#Children Quotes #Philosopher Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.”
“The universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood.”
“The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.”
“Court... a place where they dispense with justice.”
“Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics classâ€”or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.”
“It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.”
“My gravestone will say,'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?”
“Everything works when the teacher works. It's as easy as that, and as hard.”

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