"To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun."

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Source : Louis Althusser, François Matheron (1997). “The spectre of Hegel: early writings”, Verso Books

Louis Althusser

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“Why do I live in Israel? Because Israel lives in me, as it lives in all Jews. It is who we are. And those of us lucky enough to recognize this truth and embrace it in all its fullness and depth are the luckiest Jews in the world.”

Source : "Caroline B. Glick: Woman of Valor - A Shackled Warrior". Livia Bitton-Jackson, The Jewish Press, February 18, 2009.
“I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.”
“Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same”
“Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.”
“The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.”
“Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.”

Source : D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.71, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.”
“it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.”

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