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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ae78c16 | The world of men and women are making merry in the cemetery grounds. They are having sexual intercourse, God bless them, and I am alone in the Land of Fuck. | Henry Miller | ||
| 6b08ea6 | At night when I look at Boris' goatee lying on the pillow I get hysterical. O Tania, where now is that warm cunt of yours, those fat, heavy garters, those soft, bulging thighs? There is a bone in my prick six inches long. I will ream out every wrinkle in your cunt, Tania, big with seed. I will send you home to your Sylvester with an ache in your belly and your womb turned inside out. Your Sylvester! Yes, he knows how to build a fire, but I .. | Henry Miller | ||
| bb45c76 | The act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a new ambiance. | Henry Miller | ||
| a115bb2 | Ethical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief. | freedom nazism | Erich Fromm | |
| 0f83d65 | Frequently, and not only in the popular usage, sadomasochism is confounded with love. Masochistic phenomena, especially, are looked upon as expressions of love. An attitude of complete self-denial for the sake of another person and the surrender of one's own rights and claims to another person have been praised as examples of "great love". It seems that there is no better proof for "love" than sacrifice and the readiness to give oneself up .. | sacrifice no-greater-love sadomasochism | Erich Fromm | |
| ba1127e | Well-being is the state of having arrived at the full development of reason: reason not in the sense of a merely intellectual judgment, but in that of grasping truth by "letting things be" (to use Heidegger's term) as they are. Well-being is possible only to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty (in the Zen sense). Well-being means to be fully related t.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 29a9827 | To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 6436a07 | Equality today means "sameness," rather than "oneness." It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas." | Erich Fromm | ||
| 321ae3f | People are confused and unsure, they seek answers to guide them to joy, tranquillity, self-knowledge, salvation--but they also demand that it be easy to learn, that it require little or no effort, that results be quickly obtained. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 2d2c2e9 | Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu konnen. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b2a2622 | Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 3b6be9b | I cannot know who I am, because I don't know which part of me is not me. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 26fa34e | The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but "information" alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thi.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| fa917d5 | While everybody tries to be as close as possible to the rest, everybody remains utterly alone, pervaded by the deep sense of insecurity, anxiety and guilt which always results when human separateness cannot be overcome. Our civilization offers many palliatives which help people to be consciously unaware of this aloneness: first of all the strict routine of bureaucratized, mechanical work, which helps people to remain unaware of their most f.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| e626c33 | lys fy lHb wHdh ykwn l`T m`nh ltlqy, flmdrs yt`lm mn tlmdhth wlmmthl ystthyrh jmhwrh wlmHll lnfsy yushf~ `l~ yd mryDh - bshrT 'l y`ml lwHd mnhm lakhryn `l~ 'nh 'shy, bl `l~ 'n kl wHdin mnhm mrtbT blakhr `l~ nHw 'Syl wmthmr. | Erich Fromm | ||
| c5b8d19 | I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place. | Michael Ondaatje | ||
| c114b49 | Michael applied himself better than I did at school. His thirst for knowledge was far greater than any of the rest of us. He was that curious kid who asked, 'Why? Why? Why?' and he listened to and logged every detail. I'm sure his head had an in-built recording chip for data, facts, figures, lyrics and dance moves. | Jermaine Jackson | ||
| eab04cd | Music is color blind. | Michael Jackson | ||
| 6167e05 | Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch. | story writing music song motivational philosophy wisdom inspirational advertisement album alliterations amit-kalantri amit-kalantri-quotes amit-kalantri-writer background-music background-score band catch-lines catchphrases concert drums michael-jackson movie-dialogue music-director music-industry music-quotes musicians playing pop script-writing scriptwriting speechwriting tag-lines vocal singer book-writing essay script instruments sound proverbs rock creative-writing rhetoric guitar singing novel-writing movie public-speaking quotes tune movies melody characters knowledge speech artist soul touch | Amit Kalantri | |
| eef0ad0 | Happiness is wanting what you have. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 778894e | The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 112efc9 | When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. | honesty truth liars | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 3c4b614 | When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition of life." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 4556c41 | This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments. | spirituality creed custom power | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 61b72c4 | The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason. | marriage | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 0c8a80e | We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live,.. | fanatic irrationality secularism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 11487cb | Do you see this lantern? cried Syme in a terrible voice.'Do you see the cross carved on it, and the flame inside? You did not make it. You did not light it. Better men than you, men who could believe and obey, twisted the entrails of iron and preserved the legend of fire. There is not a street you walk on, there is not a thread you wear, that was not made as this lantern was, by denying your philosophy of dirt and rats. You can make nothing.. | mystery | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 55f71dd | He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| d788ba6 | How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them. | dark-ages ignorance | G.K. Chesterton | |
| b77bf7a | Take away the supernatural, and what remains is the unnatural. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| e250ebe | It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden. | poets respectable comets cruel-colors earthquakes garden night | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 19dbd49 | Perhaps we are both doing what we think right. But what we think right is so damned different that there can be nothing between us in the way of concession. There is nothing possible between us but honor and death. | right | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8eaca72 | But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt realism and objectivity of innocence. Or if we cannot do that, we must try at least to shake off the cloud of mere custom and see the thing as new, if only by seeing it as unnatural. Things that may well be familiar so long as familiarity breeds affection had much better become unfamiliar when familiarity breeds contemp.. | novelty | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 53eab4b | Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the thing that I felt in that jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wish.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 56b699b | An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not b.. | evolution | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 6df4fe0 | And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9653499 | He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic," he said with a sour smile, and lifted his coffee cup to his lips slowly, and put it down very quickly. He had put salt in it." | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 9a02b18 | It is you who are unpoetical," replied the poet Syme. "If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be as prosaic as your poetry. The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Ba.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| dd8d6a0 | Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 024c54f | Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth? | gratitude | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 069cf3d | A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate. | commerce goods property theft capitalism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| be611df | If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord." | sovereignty-of-god mysticism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 9303e29 | The chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. | humour teleology | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 45dde84 | A] permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And the weakness of all Utopias is this, that they take the greatest difficulty of man and assume it to be overcome, and then give an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller ones. They first assume that no man will want more than his share, and then are very ingenious in explaining whether .. | G.K. Chesterton |