"You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception."

-- Henri Bergson

#Imagination Quotes #Perception Quotes #Vision Quotes

“It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it.”
“There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.”

Source : "The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All the Original Illustrations".
“A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.”
“I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.”
“For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.”

Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1738, Delphi Classics
“I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!”
“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”
“The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.”

Source : Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.286, Oxford University Press

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