"Perhaps the most concise summary of enlightenment would be: transcending dualism . ... Dualism is the conceptual division of the world into categories ... human perception is by nature a dualistic phenomenon which makes the quest for enlightenment an uphill struggle, to say the least."

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Source : "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid". Book by Douglas Hofstadter, 1979.

Douglas Hofstadter

#Struggle Quotes #Perception Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes

“The top golfers in the world are like Formula One cars when it comes to their swings.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Heâ€™s sort of a homeless horse,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I wonâ€™t be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I donâ€™t want that horse in my apartment.â€ â€œWho would put a horse in an apartment? Thatâ€™s dumb.â€ â€œWhereâ€™s the horse staying now?â€ â€œMy apartment.â€ â€œI can always count on you to brighten my day,â€ Ranger said. And he disconnected.”
“I recommended to the president [George Bush] that our focus had to be on al-Qaida, the Taliban and Afghanistan. Those were the ones who attacked the United States of America on 9/11.”
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
“The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from by blood. By keeping their GDP at home, the U.S. revolutionaries were able to bootstrap their nation into an industrial powerhouse. Now, it seems, their descendants are bent on ensuring that no other country can pull the same trick off.”
“Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.”
“If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.”
“I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.”

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