"The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common."

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Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

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“I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.”
“Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.”
“Love cannot be measured by its duration...”
“The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.”
“Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.”
“Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.”
“I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.”
“In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.”

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