Henri Ellenberger Quotes & Sayings

So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement." The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the "Business men" who are the real power in the State. Men who betray their country as obvious routine.
The history of the past thirty years is eloquent enough, one would think. What these sodden imbeciles never realize is that a living organism must adapt itself intelligently to its environment, or go under at the first serious change of circumstance. — Aleister Crowley

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. — Benjamin Franklin

Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God? — Amitav Ghosh

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy. — Robert Frost

I thought you might want a ride. He practically purred the words. — S.C. Stephens

The first way design fails is due to lack of it. — Sandi Metz

You can only lead by example. — Frank Langella

Where there is light, darkness must cease. — Vivian Amis

Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time. — Kate Walsh

He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of lucidity - a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of the life we had been meant to lead all along. — Amor Towles