from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
Richard Rorty, Philosopher
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Chatting about the Past with the Elder (Ching-jen) by Hung Liang-chi
reblogged for Jimmy
All ambitions of youth yield place to calamities;
Parted as in a dream–reunited, we can’t trust our eyes.
Shall we match our strength in climbing one more mountain?
Winning fame in literature, there’s you alone.
In a sea of dust, we still can tarry for a little while;
Or sit in a granary of books, all day, without food.
This morning I took myself to Yen Pavilion for a look,
Trying to find the leanest horse to ride down the capital street.
translated by Irving Lo
“it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Photo: Varun Gaba
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
Judith Butler, author, philosopher, “What value do the humanities have?'”. McGill University speech, May 30, 2013
“ An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness… “
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.
Peter London, musician
“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”
Jean-Luc Godard, Director
“Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.”
from Douglas Moore’s Art of Quotation
“Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.”
— Madeleine, portrayed by Kim Novak, from the film “Vertigo“, 1958, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 50 Greatest Films of All Time – British Film Institute
