"Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real."

-- Louis Aragon

#Real Quotes #Eruption Quotes #Absence Quotes

“I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.”
“As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.”

Source : George Chapman, Hesiod, Musaeus (Grammaticus.), Juvenal (1858). “Homer's Batrachomyomachia, hymns and epigrams”, p.135
“The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with energy and ethical significance.”

Source : "Lectures on the Method of Academic Study" by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, translated by E. S. Morgan, edited by Norbert Guterman, 1966.
“Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.”
“My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort of thing. And for their generation the war still goes on. We still save food and little bits get scraped off and boiled out the next day.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.”
“There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.”
“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.”

Source : "Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion" by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.

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