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“Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you.”
Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith
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“Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the same time, they have refused the right to install themselves in absolute knowledge. They taught not this knowledge, but its becoming in us, not the absolute but, at most, our absolute relation to it, as Kierkegaard said. What makes a philosopher is the movement which leads back without ceasing from knowledge to ignorance, from ignorance to knowledge, and a kind of rest in this movement.”
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“I think that people who make films and think they're changing the world are sorely mistaken. If that really is your goal, there are far better ways to do it. I'm making politically observant films for audiences.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.”
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“I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.”
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“The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever. The people- beaten down today, yet rising tomorrow; losing the road one minute but finding it the next; their eyes always fixed on a star of true brotherhood, equality and dignity- the people are the real guardians of our hopes and dreams.”
Source : "Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974".
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“The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”