"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

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Oscar Wilde

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“Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 4, 2013
“If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, â€œOh, I can explain that.”
“I mean, that star over there is blinking at me madly now, but for how long? An hour or two, or for the next million years? And how long will we sit here like this? Just another moment, or the rest of our lives? You know which one I'd prefer...”
“The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, pp. 27-28, 1929.
“Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.”
“The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.”
“The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world that is our own invention entirely, whether it is on social media or what we choose to absorb. This was very different when I was a kid, like generations before us we were exposed to things that were not entirely on our terms. We had to wrestle with and find the relationship with the world around you. It was literal experience, unlike the form of protracted psychic masturbation that is the digital world we live in.”
“Iâ€™m really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.”

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