W Quotes
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“What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time”
Source: Qui a tué mon père
“What we call human nature, is actually human habit.”
“What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no “I,” no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism”
Source: The Resistance to Theory
“What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.”
“What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.”
“What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.”
Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
“What we call life is only talk of nature.”
Source: The Sun Watches the Sun
“What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental energies. These are constantly changing; they do not remain the same for two consecutive moments. Every moment they are born and they die. 'When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.' This, even now during this life time, every moment we are born and die, but we continue. If we can understand that in this life we can continue without a permanent, unchanging substance like Self or Soul, why can't we understand that those forces themselves can continue without a Self or a Soul behind them after the non-functioning of the body?”
Source: What the Buddha Taught
“What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.”
Source: An Anthology
“What we call luck is Nature’s quiet way of teaching us gratitude.”
“What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.”
Source: The Cornish Trilogy
“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.”
“What we call memory is not the past returning. It is love refusing to leave.”
Source: When the Sky Learned My Name
“What we call miracles often reveal themselves through the tender strength of kind hearts.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.”
“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”
“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”
Source: The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.”
“What we call ordinary life is sacred to someone. Protect it like it’s yours—because it is.”
“What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.”
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
“What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.”
Source: The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace
“What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.”
“What we call personality is often the echo of our circumstances.”
— Shubham Saxena”
“What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.”
“What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“What we call progress consists in coordinating ideas with realities.”
Source: Manhood of humanity
“What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.”
Source: Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography
“What we call reality is a subset of accessible spaces.”
“What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.”
“What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.”
“What we call results are beginnings.”
Source: Representative Men: Seven Lectures
“What we call “ revelations ” is a correct term because the information or the idea is revealed to us. We downloaded it from Tao’s bank of wisdom and information.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.”
“What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.”
“What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.”
“What we call the 'world' and the 'universe' is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The interdimensional entities I write about are able to move between these frequencies or dimensions and manipulate our lives.”
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
“What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.”
Source: The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people 1933-1970
“What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.”
Source: Coningsby, Or, The New Generation
“What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.”
“What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.”
Source: The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons
“What we call the Lord's prayer is actually the Disciple's Prayer because It says "Forgive us our trespasses" and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah”
“What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.”
“What we call the Protestant Ethic, the use of worldly loss and gain to symbolize heavenly standing, appears in Walden as some last suffocation of the soul. America and its Christianity have become perfect, dreamlike liberalizations or parodies of themselves.”
Source: The Senses of Walden
“What we call "the Reformation" was essentially the reaction of the barbaric, the ill-tutored and the isolated places external to the old and deep-rooted Roman civilization, against the influences of that civilization.”
Source: Europe and the Faith