"No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach"

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Source : "Mauricio Kagel" by Adrian Jack, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

Mauricio Kagel

#Inspirational Quotes #Believe Quotes #Believe In God Quotes

“In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.”
“You know, we may just be planting seeds for future generations, but that's okay. We can't be deterred from doing things, because we might be laughed at, because somebody might say, "What did you think you'd accomplish by turning your back on the secretary of state," or something like that.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Certainly for me prose has a dilatory capacity, insofar as I don't trust my abilities in prose. I imagine I could have done the same thing in poetry, but sometimes I feel more fluent in poetry than in prose, and as a consequence perhaps I might pass too quickly by a thing that I might, in prose, have struggled merely to articulate. That struggle creates space, and it seems to me a particular kind of space into which memory flows easily. I suspect I think better in poetry, however.”
“Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother”, p.270
“I think that being a mom has made me a better person. I'm much more patient and much more chill than I was before.”

Source : "Expect the ‘Unexpected’ with Cobie Smulders". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. July 23, 2015.
“My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.”
“Belts are only good for holding up your pants”
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”

Source : John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.

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