Climacus Ladder Quotes & Sayings

Indifference is not exactly a reaction I'm used to from women. Frankly, it's a little hard to take. I feel my jaw clench ... — Emma Chase

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. — John Wesley Powell

I wish for a heart you can see straight through, for a voice that glows in the dark, and a few really good friends to say, That's the way to go. — Andrea Gibson

It is said that the future narrows once we cease to believe it is eternal... — Catherine Millet

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans. — Thomm Quackenbush

A bare bulb swished from side to side. Dust floated in what little light it threw and cobwebs hung from the rafters. It smelled of spiders. — Louise Penny

When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost. — John Climacus

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it. — John Sandford

Schizophrenia
its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it
remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"
a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms — Gregory Bateson

Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us? — Connie Brockway

Flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. - John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Step — Neal Stephenson

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress. — Henry Adams

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love - nothing else. — Nikos Kazantzakis

After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. — Pope Benedict XVI

As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven ... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility. — John Climacus

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time! — Joseph Chilton Pearce

You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me. — T. S. Eliot