“We who go a-fishing are a peculiar people. Like other men and women in many respects, we are like one another, and like no others, in other respects. We understand each other's thoughts by an intuition of which we know nothing. We cast our flies on many waters, where memories and fancies and facts rise, and we take them and show them to each other, and small or large, we are content with our catch.” PeopleKnowsMenFactsShowsWaterMemoriesSeaMen And WomenRiversCastsFishesIntuitionBoatFancyLakesFishingPeculiar Author:William Cowper Prime
“Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.” TwoSelfDifferencesMemoriesAwarenessDemandSelf ImprovementContraryImprovementPursuitPeculiarIntrospectionIdentificationCondemnationIdiosyncrasiesSelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory.” MindBodyMemoriesNostalgiaInstancePeculiarMind And BodyMalady Author:Honore de Balzac
“Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.” WorldUnderstandingMemoriesPeculiarImaginaryContinentsRudeMaladyParliamentaryImaginary World Book:The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Source: The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.” ThinkingFirstsKindMemoriesForgetDiseaseDecidedIllnessAbsenceCurseRelatedCollectivesPeculiarFugitiveCollective Memory Author:Gilles Peress