Ordinis Latin Quotes & Sayings

Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious. — Peter J. Carroll

Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say. — Leo Tolstoy

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization. — John Denham

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. — Jane Jacobs

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. — Confucius

Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such. — Ameen Rihani

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself. — Frederick Wiseman

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables. — Woody Allen

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed. — Silas House

I misread the romantic tension, Didn't I? — Marissa Meyer

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty. — Diane Ravitch

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are. — Malcolm Forbes

The false world is full of illusions and misery. — Bryant McGill