"A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence."

-- Wendell Berry

#Men Quotes #Pestilence Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.”

Source : "Lesbian Nation". Book by Jill Johnston, p. 190, 1973.
“Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.”

Source : Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.115, Pickle Partners Publishing
“It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.”
“Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe, relax, and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.”
“There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.”
“One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.”
“The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.”
“I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.”

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