Carpeta Ciudadana Quotes & Sayings

Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it carelessly on your back and stride out across the download with the breeze in your face. — Julian Barnes

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald

Projection is necessary and desirable for self-fulfillment. Otherwise man is overwhelmed by his loneliness and separation and negated by the very burden of his own life. As Rank so wisely saw, projection is a necessary unburdening of the individual; man cannot live closed upon himself and for himself. he must project the meaning of his life outward, the reason for it, even the blame for it. We did not create ourselves, but we are stuck with ourselves. Technically we say that transference is a distortion of reality. But now we see that this distortion has two dimensions: distortion due to to the fear of life and death and distortion due to the heroic attempt to assure self-expansion and the intimate connection of one's inner self to surrounding nature. In other words, transference reflects the whole of the human condition and raises the largest philosophical question about that condition. — Ernest Becker

Chasing something external to satisfy the internal is a hollow practice. The only thing you can chase is yourself and you are already here! — Tresh An

The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team. — Robert D. Hare

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. — Thomas Jefferson