“Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.” PeopleWorldSelfBecomingAcademic Author:Michael McKean
“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.” MenWorldFirstsSoulSelfStatesGovernmentLastsEvilLostNationsNaturalChanceAbilityPleasureLibertyMoralHonestThis WorldKingsDisciplineLimitsWeightBoundsCorruptionBoundariesGenuineRelaxEmpiresGoodsDividedDecayCommerceSelf DisciplineLicenseCompulsionDespotismProminentHamperMoral DecayHonest Government Author:Russell Kirk
“It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.” IfsWorldWayBelieveEndsSelfWould BeServingArtificialSelf ServingPresumptuous Author:Sean Parker
“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.” PeopleWorldLooksPersonsSelfEnoughActionSufferingResultsWonderExampleProduceFedsInactionFamineCaloriesIrresponsibilitySelf CenterednessCenteredness Author:Lee Strobel
“Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsBelieveSelfShowsRealityHumanityMillionsFantasyCuttingRepublicanConcernAccountsIncomeIslandsGrandmotherRomneyBank AccountsSwissCayman Islands Author:Newt Gingrich
“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.” WorldWritingEndsSelfDreamPainFacesEvilHalfDespairOfficeAnxietyWindowTrainDepthPopulationPainfulStrangerFoolishPostsGood And EvilContinentsClosestAgonyDisguiseGlimpseOur DreamsEnd Of The WorldDiscouragementLove And DeathPost OfficeRefreshmentsClumsiness Author:John Cheever
“Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.” WorldMindSelfWisdomDifferencesThis WorldBuddhismReflectionSelf Reflection Author:Frederick Lenz
“Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.” WorldMindSelfStepsMysteryBuddhismBillionsDimensionsOther Worlds Author:Frederick Lenz
“You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.” WorldKindSelfLinesMagicBuddhismPhonesVariousContactOther WorldsOne Line Author:Frederick Lenz
“For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.” WorldSelfPlayRealityLife IsBuddhismOther WorldsAlternate Realities Author:Frederick Lenz
“We perceive the solidification as the world around us, which appears to be relatively solid. But that solidification is just really a reflection of the solidification of one's sense of self.” WorldSelfAwarenessBuddhismReflectionSelf AwarenessPerceiveSense Of Self Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They're in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.” PeopleWorldSelfBodyWonderAwarenessFieldsBuddhismAweAwe And Wonder Author:Frederick Lenz
“In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed.” PeopleWorldWarSelfHumanityPracticeMeditationConditionsBuddhismActivityDiscoverySelf DiscoveryWar Of The WorldsOur WorldWorld War IiWorld War ICultPersecuted Author:Frederick Lenz
“In the dead world of the Western mind all that is seen are shades of gray. There's a cloud over every experience. There's no possibility of divine incarnation, divine intervention, let alone that one's self in every moment is divine.” WorldMindSelfMomentsHumanityPossibilityDivineBuddhismWesternCloudsGrayShadeInterventionIncarnationDivine InterventionShades Of Gray Author:Frederick Lenz
“Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.” WorldMindStillsSelfHappinessDesireLosesBuddhismInvolvedStillnessCentering Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.” WorldTryingHas BeensSelfRealityTurnsFictionClassTeamCarScience FictionSpendingDrivingEngineersGoogleWorld ClassProfessional LifeDriving Cars Author:Sebastian Thrun
“You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have had it with the human world.” IfsWorldInspirationalShouldHumansSelfPracticeBuddhismDiscoverySelf Discovery Author:Frederick Lenz
“Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization.” WorldSelfDreamAwarenessThis WorldSelf RealizationRealizationHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.” WorldRealSelfDreamSeemsNightGoneConditionsWake UpEndlessHinduismManifoldSolidityDreaming At Night Author:Frederick Lenz
“We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.” WorldMaySelfDiesChristSinPlansAmbitionDiedRoseSignificanceNew LifeMartyrBaptism Author:Vance Havner
“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.” WorldPersonsSelfBeautifulCertainFashionDesignSeriousAmountAnd LoveRegard Author:St. Vincent
“We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.” ThinkingWorldLooksSelfLevelsAwarenessTruth IsSelf AwarenessDressesErasPresentingUnprecedentedPresenting Yourself Author:Allison Williams
“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.” WorldHumansLongSelfProblemCoursesCareersRightsEconomicCenturyRacismSolutionsDeterminationThirdsInternationalHuman RightsCommunismPropagandaSelf DeterminationSolidarityIntegrationTwentieth CenturyScholarshipThird World Author:David Levering Lewis
“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.” ThinkingWorldShouldSelfHelpingSchoolSelf EsteemStudentsBuildingActivityLowsIndependentSelf ConfidenceEsteemObedienceLow Self EsteemSchool Buildings Author:Alison Lurie
“My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.” WorldSoulSelfWholeFeelingsFallMy OwnExistenceCasesElementsCirclesWhole WorldSensationsSurroundPeculiarSpheresMy ThoughtsOpaque Author:F. H. Bradley
“Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.” KnowsWorldSelfLawSinIgnoranceBrokenClaimsExcuseOriginalitySelf KnowledgeNo ExcusesUnattainableSinningUnknowingIgnorance Of The Law Author:Clarice Lispector
“Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.” WorldFeelsBookSelfSeemsCareCertainReadingLove IsPromiseBurdenOptimisticWarmthRomantic LoveReally GreatDelightfulCommonplaceLightersGreat BookCompletenessBook Love Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life
“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.” WorldWantTwoSelfHelpingTermMediaBalanceCitizensStrikesTwo ThingsShort TermBotheredGood Citizen Author:Eli Pariser
“Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.” ThinkingWorldArtSelfArtistConsciousnessExpressionActiveContemporaryWorks Of ArtOngoingSelf ConsciousnessNihilist Author:Leonard Baskin
“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.” WorldWaySelfGovernmentRunningOrderIndividualInterestTheoryIndustryCivilizationAchievementCapitalismConstructsFree MarketSelf InterestAutomobileBureaucratsGreat AchievementAutomobile Industry Author:Milton Friedman
“We have evidence all around us in our daily analytic practice and in contemporary world history that this earth-shaking archetypal event is taking place here and now. It has already started. It is manifesting itself in international relations; in the breakdown of the social structures of Western civilization; in political, ethnic, and religious groupings; as well as within the psyches of individuals- the momentous event of the coming of the self into conscious realization.” WorldWellsSelfEarthPoliticalIndividualSocialGrowthReligiousPracticeEventsAcceptanceCivilizationConsciousEvidenceRelationStructureWesternInternationalContemporaryRealizationManifestWorld HistoryHere And NowShakingInternational RelationsBreakdownWestern CivilizationAnalyticsSocial StructurePsych Author:Edward F Edinger
“Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.” PeopleWorldSoulSelfLastsBeliefSpeakCommunityPrayerGoes OnAnalysisTrapsMonologuesInterchange Author:David Wolpe
“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.” PeopleWorldSelfLife IsSufferingReflectionSelf ReflectionMasturbation Author:Frederick Lenz
“When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.” WorldSelfDeathDiesPerceptionPerceiveInner WorldDissolution Author:Frederick Lenz
“Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.” IfsWorldHumansLooksMadeSelfAnimalSituationIntelligentSlaverySpeciesSelfishSuperiorsDumbSufficientAnimal RightsSelf SufficientCallous Author:Adela Popescu