“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: Survivor
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Fynn (1919–1999) British writer
Source: Mister God, This is Anna
Alexander Calder (1898–1976) American artist
Question, Léger once called you a realist. How do you feel about this?
1950s - 1960s, interview with Alexander Calder', (1962)
Kurt Vonnegut book Player Piano
Source: Player Piano (1952), Chapter 9 (p. 86)
Context: "You think I'm insane?" said Finnerty. Apparently he wanted more of a reaction than Paul had given him.
"You're still in touch. I guess that's the test."
"Barely — barely."
"A psychiatrist could help. There's a good man in Albany."
Finnerty shook his head. "He'd pull me back into the center, and I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." He nodded, "Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first."
“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
見るところ花にあらずと云ふことなし、<br>思ふところ月にあらずと云ふことなし。 <br class="br">Miru tokoro hana ni arazu to iu koto nashi,<br>omou tokoro tsuki ni arazu to iu koto nashi <br class="br">Classical Japanese Database, Translation #172 http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/172 (Translation: Reginald Horace Blyth) <br class="br">Statements <br class="br">Variant: There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;<br>There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 1