It42 Size Quotes & Sayings

Typically [professors] live in their heads. ... They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It's a way of getting their head to meetings. — Ken Robinson

In the ideal state a leader ensures that each man is effective in just the right capacity. — Timur Vermes

Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal. — Robert Owen

Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know. — Zora Neale Hurston

the modern rejection of imitation does not mean that human beings escape mimesis in any way; in fact, this "rejection" is a product of already intensified mimetic desire. Since the modern world is characterized by the dominion of internal mimesis - in which imitable role models transform into obstacles worthy of hatred - imitation merely lurks in the underground, where its hegemony is even more absolute. The enemy brothers of internal mimesis adamantly reject imitation and are resolute about their difference from one another; what they miss, however, is that their need to differ only increases their identicalness, as they become more exact mirror reflections of one another. — Wolfgang Palaver

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped. — Greg Egan

God doesn't ask us to understand, but He does ask us to trust. — Kristen McNulty