“The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.” PersonsImportantSpiritualityStudyTeacherSubjectsStudentsHigherYogaBhakti YogaTeacher And Student Author:Frederick Lenz
“We have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully.” HomeQualitySubjectsHigherConversationEatingDressesOccasionsRestaurantsWorthwhileMundaneEating Out Book:Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life Source: Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
“Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.” WorldMeanArtArtistGoalNatureSubjectsThis WorldMastersHigherUnderstoodSlaveSubservientHigher Goals Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“But the creative person is subject to a different, higher law than mere national law. Whoever has to create a work, whoever has tobring about a discovery or deed which will further the cause of all of humanity, no longer has his home in his native land but rather in his work.” PersonsDifferentHomeLawHumanityCausesCreativityCreativeLandSubjectsHigherDiscoveryMereDeedsNativeCreative PersonNative LandHigher Law Author:Stefan Zweig
“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.” IfsMenNeedsHumansValuesCultureFoundOpinionConditionsSubjectsPolicyExpressionHigherCivilizationBehaviorElementsHarmonyInstitutionsFulfillmentRealmsDimensionsDistinctionAutonomy Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital subject in a long letter to all his salesmen. He uses as his text a passage from Robinson Crusoe which included this: ""My Father bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and were not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind.” ShouldLongUseFatherPoorClassSuccessfulRichMiddleSubjectsMankindHigherLettersOrganizationDisasterMiddle ClassExecutivesStationsPassagesExposedCalamitySalesmanVicissitudesRobinson Crusoe Author:B. C. Forbes
“Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.” BelieveHardWould BeRoomsSubjectsHigherBeatsEntertainmentIgnorantIdleEmergenciesElderlyTemperaturePalinEuthanasiaNudgeEmergency Room Author:Carl Hiaasen