"The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom…" — Rene Magritte

"The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb."

— Rene Magritte

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29 Quotes by Rene Magritte

Rene Magritte has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers…
Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I…
We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an…
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures,…
Nothing is confused except the mind.
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on…
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a…
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest…
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.
If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no…
Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

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More Atom Quotes

This quote is filed under Atom Quotes, one of 318 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. — Henry Adams
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust… — Annie Besant
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. — Omar N. Bradley
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst… — Lord Byron
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything,… — Gerard De Nerval
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance… — Ernest Rutherford
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I… — Mark Twain
Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to… — Deepak Chopra
[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover… — Albert Einstein

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