T Quotes
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“The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events”
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element that drives all animals to fight for survival? What would you do with it? I already had my own ideas when I started my search for an entity I eventually dubbed “The Determination Gene”.”
Source: Sprout of Disruption
“The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.”
“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”
Source: False Memory
“The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.”
“The primitive mentality does not invent myths, it experiences them. Myths are original revelations of the preconscious psyche, involuntary statements about unconscious psychic happenings, and anything but allegories of physical processes. Such allegories would be an idle amusement for an unscientific intellect. Myths, on the contrary, have vital meaning, Not merely do they represent, they are the psychic life of the primitive tribe, which immediately falls into pieces and decays when it loses its mythological heritage, like a man who has lost his soul. A tribe’s mythology is its living religion, whose loss is always and everywhere, even among the civilised, a moral catastrophe.”
“The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.”
“The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.”
“The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.”
Source: Collected Papers: Papers on metapsychology. Papers on applied psycho-analysis
“The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.”
“The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the subjective, the ordering of the world in line with your needs, an inability to contemplate your own unimportance. In Henry's view such reasoning belongs on a spectrum at whose far end, rearing like an abandoned temple, lies psychosis.”
Source: Saturday
“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.”
“The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.”
Source: Raids on the Unspeakable
“The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.”
“The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our ancestral history. . . .”
“The primordial instinct of every human being is to assure himself of a shelter. The various classes of workers in society to-day no long have dwellings adapted to their needs; neither the artizan nor the intellectual.
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of to-day: architecture or revolution.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of the human "we", especially of that "we" formed by the man and the woman created in the divine image and likeness... Man is created "from the very beginning" as male and female: the life of all humanity - whether of small communities or of society as a whole - is marked by this primordial duality.”
“The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations.”
“The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“The primordial sound of the universe is something every living creature hums and vibrates to. If you are still, you will not only hear it, you will feel it.”
“The primordial state of the Absolute is absolute potential.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The primordial state of the Absolute is immaterial, spaceless, and timeless.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...
“The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.”
Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader
“The Prince came to give life unto those whose lives were almost being snuffed out by the devil via the cares of this world.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“The prince doesn't even know what you are,' she says with a glance toward Oak. 'Barely one of the Folk. Nothing but a manikin, little more than the stock left behind when a changeling is taken, a thing meant to wither and die.'
Despite myself, my gaze goes to Oak. To see if he understands. But I cannot read anything but pity on his face.
I might be only sticks and snow and hag magic, but at least I did not come from her.
I am no one's child.
That makes me smile, showing red teeth.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.”
“The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help you.' She sat down in the same chair as before. 'All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me.' Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdinck. 'Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?”
“The Prince had fallen in love. She was only a farmer's daughter, but she was was beautiful, and also smart, as the daughters of farmers need to be, for farms are complicated businesses.”
“The prince has grand dreams." "Is it worth it to have any other kind?”
Source: The Heart of Betrayal
“The prince in The Leopard was a very complex character - at times autocratic, rude, strong - at times romantic, good, understanding - and sometimes even stupid, and above all, mysterious.”
“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”
“The Prince is the only option to a better living. His arm is reliable and dependable. Get to Him, stay glued and remain on Top!”
“The prince may give out orders only according to the wish of the king, who is the true ruler of the people.”
Source: Sinless
“The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.”
“The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.”
Source: The Prince
“The Prince of Calcutta. Two of his special qualities are his intelligence and articulation, both of which have helped him immensely in the world of contemporary cricket.”
“The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
“The Prince of the Air may rule the world, but last I checked the Great Magician still owns the place.”
“The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.”
“The prince opens his tawny fox eyes and looks around. When he sees me, he slumps back down, as though relieved that I am still here.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“The prince raised his head. “I will never serve you. You have defeated me, but you will never own me.” He owed these words to those who had died for him. He owed the words to himself. To be destroyed was one thing. At least he had not surrendered.”
Source: A World Without Heroes
“The prince remembers his father's words- "Steal a loaf of bread, son, and they will cut your hands off, but steal an entire country and they will proclaim you their king. Humanity can never forgive mediocrity, but when audacity and brilliance combine in the right individual it can luster godlike- and they will forgive you anything, even a whole generation of boys sent off to battle for the interests of that lustrous-one".
Excerpt from
Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga”
Source: Varangian: Book One of the Byzantum Saga
“The prince's choice, to be or not to be.
The human choice, to love or not to love
while you're figuring out who to be,
how to be.
The choice, to do it with passion
or resistance...
This is what we struggle with”
“The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.”
“The prince set her down and dismissed his valet. The latter left with a bow and closed the door. Leaning against the wall, the prince pulled off his stockings. As he walked toward the amethyst tub, he yanked his shirt over his head.
He was lean and tightly sinewed. Her little bird heart thudded.
He glanced at her, his lips curved in not quite a smile. The next thing she knew, his shirt had flown through the air and landed on the cage, blocking her view toward the bathtub.
“Sorry, sweetheart. I am shy.”
She chirped indignantly. It was not as if she would have continued to watch him disrobe beyond a certain point.”
Source: The Burning Sky
“The prince sometimes broods,” he said, by way of explanation.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.”
Source: The Memoirs
“The Prince thinks back on what he had done. "I was kind," states the Prince. "That's my little man!" says his mother as they finish icing the cake.”
Source: Prince Kindness
“The prince tilts his head to study me. 'Tell me what you dream of, Jude Duarte, if that's your true name. Tell me what you want.'
...
'To resist enchantments,' I say, trying to will myself in to stillness. Trying not to fidget. I want to seem like a serious person who makes serious bargains.
He regards me steadily. 'You already have True Sight, given to you as a child. Surely you understand our ways. You know the charms. Salt our food and you destroy any ensorcellment on it. Turn your stockings inside out and you will never find yourself led astray. Keep your pockets full of dried rowan berries and your mind won't be influenced.'
The last few days have shown me how woefully inadequate those protections are. 'What happens when they turn out my pockets? What happens when they rip my stockings? What happens when they scatter my salt in the dirt?”
Source: The Cruel Prince