Michel Leiris Famous Quotes
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
Michel Leiris Quotations
"How do you define God Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension."
Robert J Sawyer
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Charles Robert Darwin
"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament."
William Wordsworth
"From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
Immanuel Kant
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle Like seeing your family Being with your friends A fishing trip A hunting trip A night's sleep
Walter Frederick Mondale
"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'"
Igor Stravinsky
Washington D.C. is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to."
Aldous Huxley
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."
Bernard Avishai