Empiricist View Quotes & Sayings

When you feel physically vital, emotionally stable, and psychologically centered, your ability and desire to love and express authentic compassion expand. — Deepak Chopra

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart ... ? — Johann Baptist Metz

This penetrating vocabulary of "initiatory acts," "the infectiousness of the unconflicted person," "priority magic," and so on allows us to understand more subtly the dynamics of group sadism, the utter equanimity with which groups kill. It is not just that "father permits it" or "orders it." It is more: the magical heroic transformation of the world and of oneself. This is the illusion that man craves, as Freud said, and that makes the central person so effective a vehicle for group emotion. — Ernest Becker

He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial. — Jack London

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law. — Edward Snowden

We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts. — Nick Hornby

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. — Sogyal Rinpoche

I would have fallen in love with you anywhere. — Susan Minot

The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired:
"Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?"
To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly:
"No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race was about to become extinct and the angel of Gabriel came down from above to ask it of me as a personal favor."
The effect of this outburst, this revelation, this explosion, may be imagined but can never be adequately described. — E.D.E.N. Southworth

The qualities of a successful man are tenacity, perseverance, courage and the will to win — Sunday Adelaja

What is last year's snow to me,
Last year's anything? The tree
Budding yearly must forget
How its past arose or set — Countee Cullen