Truth is a matter of the imagination.
“…Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling…” Ursula K. LeGuin
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Quotes
an intensification of the present
“The best kind of classical performance is never a retreat into the past but rather an intensification of the present.” Alex Ross in New York Times: Listen To This http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/02/16/040216fa_fact4?currentPage=1 – the best kind of *any* performance!
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symptoms…
“…glancing at their religion and politics the way a doctor would look at symptoms.” Iain Banks, in ‘State of the Art’, describing how an enormously advanced species of extraterrestrials viewed human civilisation…
We can bomb the world to pieces
“We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can’t bomb it into peace.” Michael Franti
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‘chosen’ and ‘frozen’
“It is precisely when we start to think of some of us as ‘chosen’ and others as ‘frozen’ that we happily become willing to defrost them with our bombs” Farid Esack
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“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” Paul Valéry
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Love is “…an attitude, an orientation of character…”
Love is “…an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole…” Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving
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Infantile and Mature Love
“Infantile love follows the principle: ‘ I love because I am loved.’ Mature love follows the principle: ‘I am loved because I love.’ Immature love says, ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving
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“l’amour est l’enfant de la liberté.”
“l’amour est l’enfant de la liberté.” Victor Hugo
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Love is the active concern…
“Love is the active concern for the life and growth of that which we love…” Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving
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