quotes about Shoreline

last updated: November 28, 2023

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you donâ€™t know.
-- Leonard Sweet

Source : "Jesus: A Theography". Book by Frank Viola, Leonard Sweet, October 9, 2012.

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“Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ.”
“To say that historical conditions made personal life possible, and with it the self-consciousness that allowed psychoanalysis to emerge, is to tell half the story: one also has to consider that the erotic impulse, ever pressing for satisfaction, had something to do with making the history that encouraged its expression.”
“A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.”
“Tell the truth, lies are difficult to remember.”
“Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.”
“It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.”
“We were not having any fun, he had recently begun pointing out. I would take exception (didn't we do this, didn't we do that) but I had also known what he meant. He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them. He meant wanting. He meant living.”
“I'm glad to be here [in Israel] again.”
“I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.”
“We cannot transform what we refuse to engage”