"Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?"

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#School Quotes #Men Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.”
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
“Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it!”
“Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.”

Source : "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.
“Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.”
“I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out...”
“I ignore [Barack Obama] like I ignore [Louis ] Farrakhan.”
“I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!”

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