Hermetic Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think love is enough: Love and respect aren't the same thing.
Love is fusion. As a baby, you belong to your parents, you're extension of them.
Respect is differentiation: you belong to yourself, and you're an extension of no one.
Differentiation is essential for happiness of adults. — Barbara Sher

Contemporary American fiction has become cheap counseling to the bereaved bourgeois. — Anis Shivani

In raising problems without solutions, in posing questions without answers, in retreating to the hermetic, cavernous abode of complaint, pessimism is guilty of that most inexcusable of Occidental crimes - the crime of not pretending it's for real. Pessimism fails to live up to the most basic tenet of philosophy - the "as if." Think as if it will be helpful, act as if it will make a difference, speak as if there is something to say, live as if you are not, in fact, being lived by some murmuring non-entity both shadowy and muddied. — Eugene Thacker

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. — Asger Jorn

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation. — Hussein Chalayan

We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We ... — Gary Larson

What will I do with the fact that I am only one? I will realize that everyone who has changed history was also only one. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves. — Daniel J. Boorstin

Conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience. — Kelly Miller

the hermetic philosophy of the harmony between man and nature contained in the phrase "As above, so below. — Christiane Northrup

It's real for us — J.K. Rowling

Who would I be if I didn't? Who would I be if I did? — Cheryl Strayed

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. — Anne Lamott

Landowners and influential men of all kinds, especially members of political councils, ought to set an example to the people. The young members of rich families should offer themselves for military service. If not one of two sons, at least one of three sons should be ready to do so. — Chiang Kai-shek

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. — Publilius Syrus

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. — Dennis Prager

No one has the right to live without being shocked. — Philip Pullman