Troeltsch Views Quotes & Sayings

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking! — Marvin Minsky

When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience. — Rick Riordan

I was stuck in Port Ticonderoga, proud bastion of the common-and-garden variety button and of lower-priced long johns for the budget-minded shoppers. I would stagnate here, nothing would ever happen to me, I would end up an old-maid like Miss Violence, pitied and derided. This at the bottom was my fear. I wanted to be elsewhere, but I saw no way to get there. Once in a while, I found myself hoping that I would be abducted by white slavers, even though I didn't believe in them. At least it would be a change... — Margaret Atwood

Invest in building a happy life. Create a portfolio of memories. Those are the most valuable assets. They're priceless investments. And they'll never go down in value. — Todd Saville

So let it be a criterion if you follow the path of awareness, let love be the criterion. When your awareness suddenly blooms into love, know perfectly well that awareness has happened, SAMADHI has been achieved. If you follow the path of love, then let awareness function as a criterion, as a touchstone. When suddenly, from nowhere, at the very center of your love. a flame of awareness starts arising, know perfectly well ... rejoice! You have come home. — Rajneesh

Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself? — Djuna Barnes

Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power. — Akshat Paul

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name. — Terry Eagleton

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers. — Natalie Dormer