...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.
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“The Taste of the Age”, p. 40Randall Jarrell
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People have different professions, diferent points of view. They are like observers looking at the world through the narrow windows of an otherwise closed structure. Occasionally they assemble at the center and discuss what they have seen; then one observer will talk about a beautiful landscape with red trees, a red sky, and a red lake in the middle; the next one about an infinite blue plane without articulation; and the third about an impressive, five-floor-high building; they will quarrel. The observer on top of the structure (me) can only laugh at their quarrels-but for them the quarrels will be real and he (the observer on top) will be an unworldly dreamer. Real life... is exactly like that. Every person has his own well-defined opinions, which color the section of the world he percieves. And when people come together, when they try to discover the nature of the whole which they belong, they are bound to talk past each other; they will understand neither themselves nor their companions.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.
Murray Leinster
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
Augustine of Hippo
I quarrel with surrealists and abstract art only as one quarrels with his father and mother.
Mark Rothko
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Blaise Pascal
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