“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals -- you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsKindLittlesMadeMomentsSeemsAbleGrowsAnimalTomorrowWingsKingdomsRealisingButterflyAnticipationWorldviewLeatherStinkButterfly WingsSherbet Author:Russell Brand
“Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.” PersonsMadeSeemsSpiritualLawUniverseClassModernObjectsCollegeExpressionLetting GoWorshipPerformancesStructureMereInstanceAbstractDivinityAddressesGraduatesFrankIdealismCultScandalDeitiesTranscendentalSuperhumanGraduating Class Author:William James
“As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.” FirstsMadeDifferentFactsSeemsViewsConsciousnessWonderfulBirdStrikesFlightStreamsPace Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology
“In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.” IfsPersonsMadeSelfDoneSeemsUsedSufferingDiesSocialUnitedReflectionRelationStuckUsed To BeTortureSuperstitionsPinsWitchcraftCounterparts Book:Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.” LoveMadeHandsSeemsYoungLiteraturePrayerPitySoilCaress Author:Andre Gide