Mraveni Te Quotes

#1. When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion.

Susan Blackmore

#2. But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

Darrell Royal

#3. Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do."
"Prodigy," I corrected.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.

Jonathan Swift

#5. The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Dionne Bromfield

#6. I wanted to indulge in him, to taste skin and sin and sweetness and make time stop. (Emma)

Tamara Lush

#7. The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Patrick Swayze

#8. The difference between dictatorship and democracy is that in a dictatorship one man can overcome, humiliate and put upon the other. In a democracy, the other can do the same with one.

Frigyes Karinthy

#9. From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it.

Mario Andretti

#10. If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

Joseph Hume

#11. For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy.

Salman Rushdie

#12. The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.

Humberto Maturana