#ric

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#arise #brutes #empirical #far #like

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#aside #bounds #follows #god #limited

I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#american film #being #blah #certainly #film

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. ↗

— John Lennon

#being rich #enough #get #go #guilt

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#background #been #being #belongs #community

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#africa #arms #bird #cover #everybody

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#barefoot #children #dirty #go #love

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously. ↗

— Jay Leno

#america #anonymously #doing #everyone #good

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#american cinema #cinema #did #disappears #even

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cape #daughter #grandson #great #i