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Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. ↗

— Amanda Pays

#chair #comfort #comfortably #enjoy #few

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#ears #eyes #hear #our #poem

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#art #criticism #distinguishes #modern #modern art

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#change #dialectic #lies #neither #nor

Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ↗

— George Peabody

#due #education #future #future generations #generations

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#defenders #does #heat #more #nothing

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#furnishes #plaything #quotations

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#creativity #endowed #every #existence #god

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity