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Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead… — Helen Keller
When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating… — Unknown Author
The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a… — William Wordsworth
Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. — Arthur Koestler
Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch.… — Richard Huelsenbeck
Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing… — Helene Hanff
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;… — C.S. Lewis
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams
The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains,… — John Wesley Powell

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