“Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free that can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. To completely empty the whole content of the mind — that is real freedom.” MenMindLooksRealWholeFreedomLevelsTalkingInfluenceHe ManCircumstancesPerceptionHighestCapableEmptyRegardMereEnvironmentalObjectivesTwistedRevoltReal FreedomEnvironmental Influences Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.” MenInspirationalGivingInspirationGovernmentMotivationalMotivationLibertyTheoryEqualEmptyGive MeCleverConsentConsent Of The Governed Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.” ThinkingMenMindSpeechEmptyUprising Author:Sophocles
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.” MenI CanSpaceWalksStageNeededEmptyTheatreEngagedEmpty Space Book:The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate Source: The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate
“Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.” ThinkingMenGivingMatterCareWantedLove IsOur LivesLandDangerousIllusionEmptyLustBlissDestinationSpellsDisguiseVoyagesDangerous ThingsDeceptiveNothing MattersDeceiverWrenches Author:Bernard Cornwell
“At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.” MenFirstsLooksKindMayMeanSocialCrimeEmptyMachinesSlaveryPainfulRhythmConfusedMechanismTypicalGlancesAnguishGangSocial LifeGaiety Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. [...] It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. [...] It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.” ThinkingMenLittlesFactsRoomsMistakeBrainWallHighestEmptyImportanceUselessYou ChooseFurnitureScarletAtticsStudy In Scarlet Book:A Study in Scarlet Source: A Study in Scarlet
“A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’” MenWorldBelieveChristianAsksChurchTakenDoubtRedEmptyDenyVainCivilizedPeterMaryTemptedLampsWeepingTombsDoubtedMary Magdalene Author:Pope Pius XII