"Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream."

-- D.T. Suzuki

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“The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.”
“Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.180, Univ of California Press
“One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.”
“If you decide you're going to do the piece, you're doing it because you love the writing.”
“War is a horribly fascinating thing.”

Source : Robert Lee Sherrod (1945). “On to Westward: War in the Central Pacific”
“For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.”
“Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.131, Wave Books
“The Ironman World Championship is the hardest race I've competed in. Not only do the elements (heat, wind, humidity) make it grueling, but the quality of the field makes it a true test.”

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