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So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ethics #morality #progress #society #sorrow

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#mistakes #life

These days I live in a magical little village on Dartmoor in Devon, England, and my "special spot" is a moss-covered rock in a circle of trees in the woods behind my house. I often go into the woods, or walk through the fields and hills nearby, when I need inspiration, or to work out a plot problem, or come up with an idea. I think better on my feet, particularly when there is beautiful countryside around me and a dog at my side. When I was younger and lived in big cities, I had special places there too. There's magic everywhere, if you look. ↗

— Terri Windling

#get-away #inspirational #nature #rural-setting #urban-setting

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#continent #easy #imported #luxury #necessity

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#city #ernst #father #high #high school

A goal without a date is just a dream. ↗

— Milton H. Erickson

#dream #goal #just #without

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#give #had #however #i #introductory

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#attitude #isolating #method #order #our

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#ancient #bali #been #cultures #few

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#comes #europe #japan #lightness #new