"When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders."

-- Frantz Fanon

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“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?”
“In many instances violence - which obviously inflicts tremendous trauma on victims - also inflicts trauma on the perpetrator. Radical evil takes a lot of preparation, not just from an organizational point of view, but from brainwashing, psychological preparation and the legitimization of violence.”
“I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.”
“You have to be willing - you have strong ideas, you have strong views, but you have to be willing also to look at experience.”
“Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends.”

Source : Nancy Kline (1999). “Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind”, p.51, Hachette UK
“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source : Jaroslav Pelikan (2006). “Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures”, p.229, Penguin
“Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.”

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