Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all… — John Green Copy Share Image
What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that… — Rod Paige Copy Share Image
You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last.… — Craig Lucas Copy Share Image
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Every worldview has its ambiguities - debatable elements that people simply will not see to eye on. There's nothing wrong with that… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Get comfortable with ambiguity. It’s not all laid out for you at once because it wasn’t just Walt Whitman who contained multitudes.… — Robert Chazz Chute Copy Share Image
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
An educated man must have a "curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
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