Ontological Security Quotes & Sayings

What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it. — Irving Kristol

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud. — Will McIntosh

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism. — Nicholas Gane

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles. — Matt Cameron

Dare to imagine. Dare to be.
Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil.
The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn. — Richelle E. Goodrich

You're a hidjus old pollywobble! — Ruth Park

I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family. — Celine Dion

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided. — Kurt Vonnegut

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer. — Anthony Kiedis

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat. — Edward Young

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. — Phillips Brooks

A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. ( ... ) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances. — Anthony Giddens

Cooper pulled out a high-backed stool, sat down, tapped out the beat on the bar with his fingertips. He'd heard once that the essence of country music was three chords and the truth. Well, the three-chords part still stands. — Marcus Sakey