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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success ↗


— Ian Fleming


#genius

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. ↗


— Terry Pratchett


#euphemism #humour #political-correctness #humour

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ↗


— E. B. White


#about #bright #bright future #feel #future

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. ↗


— Johannes Stark


#change #electron #fundamental #ionization #layer

You can't lie to your soul. ↗


— Irvine Welsh


#introspection #honesty

Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his private, bourgeois emotions: his sufferings great and small, his nostalgias, his religious or political pre-occupations, and, if he were English, his pipe-smoking reveries. On occasions, individual genius allowed a more subtle emanation to envelope the human nucleus of the poem - as we find in Baudelaire for example. But this splendour was a by-product. All the poet wished was to be a human being. When he writes, I believe today's poet simply wishes to be a poet. ↗


— José Ortega y Gasset


#motivation #poetry #romanticism #art

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time. ↗


— Albert Camus


#creativity #intellectual #art

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline. ↗


— Alain Badiou


#communism #euclid #geometry #mao #maoism

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design. ↗


— Steve Maraboli


#design #direction #happiness #journey #progress

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. ↗


— Aldous Huxley


#intellectualism #sex






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