My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
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"Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism" (1977), Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade (1981)Ellen Willis
Isadora Duncan has not dealt with the dance intellectually, nor spiritually — but personally. The Age saw to that!
Isadora Duncan
The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange and foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the group) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect. It seems almost incredible to us, for example, that things which we know very well, could have escaped recognition in past ages. We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. But the explanation is that their modes of life did not call for attention to such facts, but held their minds riveted to other things.
John Dewey
The first cut is the deepest, Baby I know —
The first cut is the deepest
'Cause when it comes to being lucky, she's cursed
When it comes to lovin' me, she's worst
But when it comes to being loved, she's first
That's how I know
The first cut is the deepest.Cat Stevens
When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man?
Epictetus
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand Russell
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Willis, Nathaniel Parker
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