#though

Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. ↗

— David Bohm

#case #cases #doctor #fact #far

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. ↗

— Roberto Bolano

#although #control #day #day to day #got

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. ↗

— Brian Eno

#composers #experience #find #increasingly #likely

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #being lied to #decided #done #eccentric

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#dissatisfied #envious #especially #evil #hearts

It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#am #american #american spirit #difficult #difficult times

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#doctor #even #higher #his #ignorant

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic. ↗

— Bono

#being #cobain #good #i #ironic

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different. ↗

— Ralph Boston

#been #carrying #day #different #dog