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“Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.”

Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

“Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.”

World Way Ideas Spiritual Trouble Modern Hero Medicine Killing Treated Sickness Destroying Judged Worms Germs Personal Things Beetles Contamination Warmongers Modern Medicine Pasteur Ddt

Author:Michio Kushi

“Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.”

People Firsts Littles Said Important Self Suffering Culture Taken Trouble Modern Ego Rewards True Self Medal Inner Life Identification Away From You Modern Culture

Author:Richard Rohr

“It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.”

People Thinking Way Trying Made Able Suffering Black Lines Trouble Modern Minutes Source Letters Sticks Boxes Superiors Mail Burned Blank Stamps Modern Life Cork Chagrin

Author:Robert Benchley

“All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.”

Able Trouble Modern Modern Life

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.”

Enough Lost Generations Trouble Modern Modern Life Lost Generation

Author:James Thurber

“The trouble with a lot of modern theology and a lot of modern thinking about God, is that we think of God a sort of being like ourselves, but bigger and better with likes and dislikes similar to our own.”

Thinking Trouble Modern Bigger Likes Theology Dislike Bigger And Better Likes And Dislikes

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.”

Source: A Collection of Essays

“The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.”

Stories Form Reading Fiction Trouble Modern Links Subversive Short Love Virtuoso

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.”

Knows Reading Difficult Know How Trouble Modern Contemporary Hebrew

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.”

Men World Believe Causes Doubt Trouble Modern Stupid Intelligent Fundamentals Minors Modern World Intelligent Man Individualistic

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935