Famous quotes containing the words free and/or reeds:
“It is part of the nature of consciousness, of how the mental apparatus works, that free reason is only a very occasional function of peoples thinking and that much of the process is made of reactions as standardized as those of the keys on a typewriter.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)
“Myself now and myself a while ago are indeed two; but when better, I simply cannot say. It would be fine to be old if we traveled only toward improvement. It is a drunkards motion, staggering, dizzy, wobbling, or that of reeds that the wind stirs haphazardly as it pleases.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)