“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.” Has BeensIdeasStatesActionFormScienceCertainParentAnimalExistenceOpinionForeverGenerationsEvolutionHabitPhilosopherProductionsThis LifeAcquireImmortalSentimentsContinuingAfter DeathIngeniousPropensity Author:Erasmus Darwin
“The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsEarthExistenceConsciousnessDesignHabitCitizensMadnessRationalOur TimeSanityFulfillingRequirementsWorld Citizen Author:Norman Cousins
“Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.” ThinkingReasonForceImaginationExistenceHabitReflectionEternityLaysMereRootedNothingness Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects
“An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.” WayMindMayArtBodyHandsCareCultureCausesForgetExistenceWorryHabitNormalConsciousEntertainmentDaily LifeNervesRoutinePopular CultureBody Art Book:The Politics of the Unpolitical Source: The Politics of the Unpolitical
“Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.” GivingTryingMayImportantActionSufferingExistenceHabitImportant ThingsNotionContraryFearfulUncertainObserversTriflesUntrue Author:Carl Maria von Weber
“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.” WantImaginationExistenceTeacherImagineHabitSelfishChainsLive LifeImagine ThatInabilityCommonplaceEscapingClingingPeople Don't Change Author:Anne Sullivan Macy
“Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.” IndividualExistenceEnvironmentHabitCompromiseDullGuaranteesLightningConductorEccentricity Author:Samuel Beckett
“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.” ShouldMemoriesExistenceHabitCapableParadiseInfernoGood Habits Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom