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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."
"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."
"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."
"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."
Explore more quotes by Frederick Pollock
"Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by law and duties created by the will of the parties."
"It cannot be assumed that equity was following common law whenever they agreed, any more than the converse."
"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
"Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not."
"Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say."
"I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted."
"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."
"Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit."
"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."
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