#peri

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#godlike #impartiality #judging #remember #same

I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously. ↗

— Erwin Schrödinger

#philosophy #physics #science #beauty

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#current #current situation #disastrous #employing #ends

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#emergency #his #legs #perilous #thinks

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#between #childhood #folly #human #human life

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#connection #curable #doses #enthusiasm #experience

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#dramatic #experiences #i #look #material

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that. ↗

— Yohan Blake

#everybody #experience #hate #i #me

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#arrived #brought #experience #four #guess

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish