“A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.” WayWellsLongEnoughWould BeFacesValuesAttitudeConditionsPlanetsConsequenceEnvironmentalInevitablePermanentDoomEnough TimeWrong Attitude Author:T. S. Eliot
“The permanent mental attitude which the sensitive intelligence derives from philosophy is an attitude that combines extreme reverence with limitless skepticism.” PhilosophyAttitudeExtremesPermanentSensitiveReverenceSkepticismLimitlessMental Attitude Author:John Cowper Powys
“General scepticism is the live mental attitude of refusing to conclude. It is a permanent torpor of the will, renewing itself in detail towards each successive thesis that offers, and you can no more kill it off by logic than you can kill off obstinacy or practical joking.” AttitudeOffersLogicDetailsPracticalsPermanentSkepticismMental AttitudeThesisObstinacyScepticism Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding
“An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.” MindNextLinesAttitudePovertyGrowingPermanentGreat MenRighteousParliamentIndignationRighteous Indignation Author:Paul Valery
“One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.” IfsThinkingWayMindRealFeelingsCultureLanguageForceConsciousnessAttitudeDevelopmentEvolutionEgoOne WayFasterLegacyEvolvePermanentExpansionCatalystAccelerateEgo TripDoing Your Own ThingPermanent ThingsLanguage DevelopmentEvolution Of Language Author:Terence McKenna