User:Pengo/quotes

"The composition of this book has been for the author a long struggle of escape, and so must the reading of it be for most readers if the author's assault upon them is to be successful, — a struggle of escape from habitual modes of thought and expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."

— John Maynard Keynes, economist.

"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."

— Margaret Mead, anthropologist.

"What people seek is not the meaning of life but the experience of living"

— Joseph Campbell.

"It's not the eyes but the glance—not the lips, but the smile...."

— Saint Exupéry

"Then I want to ask you this," he said, "Does the economy exist for us, or do we exist for the economy?" I don't think anyone would even pose that question now. It would seem impossible ... irreligious.

— Shirley Hazzard quoting Admiral Rickover

"Form is empty; emptiness is form; form is not other than emptiness; emptiness is not other than form."

— Heart Sutra

"Just because you've implemented something doesn't mean you understand it."

— Brian Cantwell Smith

"We know we have reached the end of a story ... when we know how to feel about the events that make it up."

— Kieran Egan

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