"The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude."

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Source : "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.

Jurgen Habermas

#Attitude Quotes #Taken Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.”
“I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.”

Source : "Fictional character: Sam Kamin". "My Giant", www.imdb.com. 1998.
“In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.”
“Britain possesses no climate, only weather.”
“I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life.”
“No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'”
“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books
“If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].”

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