"I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth."

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Source : "Fact, Fiction, and Forecast".

Nelson Goodman

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“The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.”
“And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee”
“Donâ€™t wait around waiting for God to do something that Heâ€™s already given you the power to do.”
“It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.”
“It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore”
“The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.”

Source : "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.
“If you want to be successful, never laugh!”
“I do think, from what we know of people who've had near-death experiences, that they often feel a warmth, and a light and a sense of love, and that would be great if that were there when we died.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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