"I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age."

-- Tom Wolfe

#Thinking Quotes #Greek Quotes #Age Quotes

“What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.”
“How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. Thatâ€™s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.”

Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.46, A&C Black
“A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.”
“To the question, â€˜Is the cinema an art?â€™ my answer is, â€˜what does it matter?â€™... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroixâ€¦ Art is â€˜making.â€™ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.”
“I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.”
“Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our own consciousness without reference to the powers of the state, or must we seek permission from the state in order to explore our own consciousness?”
“The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth.”
“..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.”

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