Susreti Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. — Alfred North Whitehead

I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its physical hugeness, its rough enormity. It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes, barrens, wilds. It still dwarfs, terrifies, crushes. The rivers still roar, the mountains still crash, the winds still shatter. Man is an affair of cities. His gardens, orchards and fields are mere scrapings. Somehow, however, he has managed to shut out the face of the giant from his windows. But the giant is there, nevertheless. — Wallace Stevens

Anybody can kill anybody. — Lynette Fromme

Let emotions happen naturally. If we try to control them they will never be released and will stick with us like a shadow. But if we can observe them with no judgement, no labels and when we do label them because it's difficult transmute them into positive creativity. — Matthew Donnelly

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved. — Dalai Lama

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist. — Robert A. Heinlein

Thus Hawkes (1975)maintained that pornography is not explicit sex, but 'uncaring sex,' but could add that '[t]o me, censorship is pornographic. — Martha Cornog

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. — Madeleine L'Engle

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal. — Steve Ballmer

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view. — Norman Finkelstein

A man never is quite such an abject specimen as his wife makes him look, — D.H. Lawrence