Animistic Culture Quotes & Sayings

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old. — Jack White

I don't like animals. It's a strange thing, I don't like men and I don't like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me. — Samuel Beckett

I'm way different than I was last year. You learn something new every year. I learned a whole lot from last season and a whole lot from this season. I'm still learning. — Vince Young

Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth. — Herbert Marcuse

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it. — Will Ferrell

Go for vitality, not comfort. — Nicholas Lore

What matters is that you develop the mindset that people want what you have to offer. Your belief that you truly can make a difference makes all the difference! It's called congruent communication. — Matt Anderson

Then I wondered if that's all God ever is
somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are
different faces of God walking around. — Sheri Reynolds

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good. — Susan Glaspell

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given. — Zeena Schreck

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them. — John Burdett

As with all gut feelings, only time will tell whether this it is pathetic self-delusion. — Neal Stephenson

Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts? Here now 's the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life. A life-buoy of a coffin! Does it go further? Can it be that in some spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality-preserver! I 'll think of that. — Herman Melville

I could either succumb to the nightmares I've raised or paint them. — Thomm Quackenbush