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“Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.”

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Saint Augustine, born on November 13, 354 in Tagaste, North Africa, and died on August 28, 430, was an influential Christian theologian, philosopher, and writer. He is considered one of the 'Fathers of the Church' and had a profound impact on Christian theology, philosophy, and Latin literature. His work 'Confessions' is a classic of Western literature, and his thoughts have had a lasting influence on Christian doctrine and Western culture. more

“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.”

World Universe Imagination Steps Imagine Greatness Masters Shapes Expecting Plastic Novelty Exaggeration Remakes Strangeness Exaggerating Exaggeration Is Expecting More

Book:The Image

Source: The Image

“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”

Today Science Artist Imagination Technology Function Myth

Author:Cyril Connolly

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