Quote by Denis Diderot on Doctors, Cooks, and Health
“Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.”
Denis Diderot
Author Archive for: Jan
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Quote by Fred Hoyle on Greatness and Cultural Conditions
“It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.”
Fred Hoyle
Quote by Alicia Silverstone on Self-Perception
“My boyfriend calls me ‘princess’, but I think of myself more along the lines of ‘monkey’ and ‘retard’.”
Alicia Silverstone
Quote by Alicia Silverstone about Fashion Terms
“Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?”
Alicia Silverstone
Quote by Oswald Spengler on City and Countryside
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
Oswald Spengler
Quote by Alicia Silverstone on the Depth and Lightness of the Film Clueless
“I think that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.”
Alicia Silverstone
Oswald Spengler Quote on Man, Woman, and History
“Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.”
Oswald Spengler
Quote by Charles Wright Mills: IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology
“IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.”
Charles Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills Quote on America’s Urban Structure
“America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.”
Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Terence McKenna on the Tension Between Ego and the Feminine
“The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.”
Terence McKenna