Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Be always like the sea, than breaking up against cliffs it finds always the force to try again.
And patience after all is a man's nearest approach to Nature's processes of creation.
I don't miss my own past. I miss the past overall: the sixties of Kerouak, the twenties in Paris of the Lost Generation, 1890 of Dead Man, 1904 of Barrie. I don't make movies to see a new place, but a different period.
Here is nothing more rare in the world than someone who is usually bearable.
Study hard to be able to dominate the techniques that permit the domination of nature. Remember that the Revolution is what is important and that each of us, on our own, is worthless.
So we split without having understood each other. But it is not easy to understand one another in this world.
It is better to be hated for what one is than to be loved for what one isn't.
Common sense is a judgement formulated without being though of, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or by humanity in its entirety.
One loves only what one doesn't entirely posess.