Quote by Andre Breton
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. – Andre Breton

Other quotes by Andre Breton

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton

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Nature
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery –even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness –is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. – Andre Breton

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Imagination
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. – Andre Breton

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Surrealism
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Science
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949

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Science

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people. – Matthew Fox

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Science

Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Science

I think if Im going to do a science fiction, Im going to go down a new path that I want to do. – Ridley Scott

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Science

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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. – Felix Adler

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. – Thomas Carlyle

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Mens arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. – Charles Caleb Colton

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