Wilfrid quotes
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“The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”
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“One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.”
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“Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.”
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“Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.”
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“I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?”
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“It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.”
-- WilfridSource : "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.
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“Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.”
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Source : "Happy Endings' Adam Pally, on playing TV's least stereotypical gay guy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 23, 2012.
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Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.378, World Scientific
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“Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.”
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“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.”
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