“The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.” SelfEvilIndividualCommonGroupsMankindLowsPrimariesIdentificationCommon DenominatorTranscendingAggressiveness Author:Arthur Koestler
“The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he is a part of some larger entity which transcends the boundaries of the individual self. This psychological urge to belong, to participate, to commune is as primary and real as its opposite. The all-important question is the nature of that higher entity of which the individual feels himself a part.” FeelsImportantRealSelfIndividualSocietyHigherWorshipEmpathyOppositesBoundariesTendenciesPsychologicalPrimariesUrgesMechanismEntityProjectionIdentificationImportant QuestionsCommunes Author:Arthur Koestler
“There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or they will study with a Zen master who lives in the contemporary world.” WorldWayTwoIndividualStudyMastersContemporaryPrimariesIntroductionMonasteriesZen Master Author:Frederick Lenz
“Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.” ReasonWholeCertainUniverseIndividualStrongDangerAdventureDramaRadicalPrimariesSubstanceMeaning Of LifeCollectivesBiologyVery StrongPortionsChaptersEntityStrictBiographiesEmployedHistoricBiologistCompact Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“America will nurture a new Muslim - one who can believe in Muhammad and the Quran but who abandons belief in a Shariah-based state and affirms the primary American value of individual liberty, which has not been a normative Islamic value.” BelieveStatesAmericaValuesIndividualBeliefLibertyPrimariesIslamicAbandonNurtureMuhammadQuranIndividual LibertyAmerican Values Author:Dennis Prager