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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6e4f579 | The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 7205990 | Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the oppo.. | hope truth disillusionment society innocence lie | Erich Fromm | |
| 9742c3d | The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health and happiness. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 1915bbb | The outer chains have simply been put inside of man. The desires and thoughts that the suggestion apparatus of society fills him with, chain him more thoroughly than outer chains. | Erich Fromm | ||
| 57bf8bb | He understands that he sees things differently from the way everyone else does, but he can't put his finger on why. He's not like other people. No one understands him. So he goes through his whole life with this, uh..." he paused, "confusion." Michael looked off into the distance, now seeming lost in his thought process. "Everybody thinks he's very special, but, really, he's very sad. He's so, so sad." | J. Randy Taraborrelli | ||
| d293973 | What we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us to the deep wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. Now, when the world is so confused and its problems so complicated, I feel we need our children more than ever. Their natural wisdom points the way to solutions that lie, waitingto be recognized, within our own hearts. | Michael Jackson | ||
| 532ae76 | Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2ff94ed | If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 83b0fd2 | What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? I'm probably hopelessly out of date but my advice is get real-world experience: Be a cowboy. Drive a truck. Join the Marine Corps. Get out of the hypercompetitive "life hack" frame of mind. I'm 74. Believe me, you've got all the time in the world. You've got ten lifetimes ahead of you. Don't worry about your friends.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b4357ff | I always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you're the boss of the people who have only one skill. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c52e2ea | here's my 8-step process for maximizing efficacy (doing the right things): Wake up at least 1 hour before you have to be at a computer screen. Email is the mind-killer. Make a cup of tea (I like pu-erh) and sit down with a pen/pencil and paper. Write down the 3 to 5 things--and no more--that are making you the most anxious or uncomfortable. They're often things that have been punted from one day's to-do list to the next, to the next, to the.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d5637fe | If you ran into an asshole in the morning you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9e3bbe9 | Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy....The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities...To make all politics cosmopolitan is to create an aristocracy of globe-trotters. If your political .. | politics one-world-government local-government nationalism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| fa06070 | There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact. Every other basis is a sort of sentimental confusion, full of merely verbal echoes of the older creeds. Those verbal associations are always vain for the vital purpose of constraining the tyrant. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| ee5df04 | There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand, With shaking timber and shifting sand, Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand Than the square stones of Rome. For men are homesick in their homes, And strangers under the sun, And they lay on their heads in a foreign land Whenever the day is done. Here we have battle and blazing eyes, And chan.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b97336a | A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange. | immortality writing unfinished-works fame | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4055237 | You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?" | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 873e1e9 | To-day all our novels and newspapers will be found to be swarming with numberless allusions to the popular character called a Cave-Man. He seems to be quite familiar to us, not only as a public character but as a private character. His psychology is seriously taken into account in psychological fiction and psychological medicine. So far as I can understand, his chief occupation in life was knocking his wife about, or treating women in gener.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 42b2663 | tradition is only democracy extended through time. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 06c43cd | Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung; The world was very old indeed when you and I were young. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7ec4b57 | The place that the shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic, it was not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained or explained away. It was a place of dreams come true. | nativity | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 775ee21 | The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen--that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began wit.. | science eugenics materialism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| c8873a4 | I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 56b7801 | Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of Drink--as if drink could be a problem. When people have come to call the problem of human intemperance the Problem of Drink, and to talk about curing it by attacking the drink traffic, they have reached quite a dim stage of barbarism. The t.. | brilliance modern-barbarism g-k-chesterton sin | G.K. Chesterton | |
| c52d22f | The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact. | humour truth joke | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4d29b5d | If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more fit to govern them? On the ordinary environment argument the matter is fairly manifest. The comfortable class must be merely our vanguard in Utopia...Is there any answer to the proposition that those who have had the best opportunities will probably be our best guides? Is there any answer to the argument that th.. | the-rich | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 8aff6a1 | Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial. | joy | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 426e4d5 | A cynic once told G. K. Chesterton, the British novelist and essayist, "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything." | Benjamin Graham | ||
| c79ad08 | To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power - the power at some moments to outgrow and swallow up the stars. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 91a6186 | Well, you have said that you were quite certain I was not a serious anarchist. Does this place strike you as being serious?" "It does seem to have a moral under all its gaiety," assented Syme; "but may I ask you two questions? You need not fear to give me information, because, as you remember, you very wisely extorted from me a promise not to tell the police, a promise I shall certainly keep. So it is in mere curiosity that I make my querie.. | anarchism moral right-and-wrong | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f638d0a | Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it. | fear force | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 5e929ba | For these disguises did not disguise, but reveal. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| f18aae5 | We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity? | good national-troubles social-problems insanity | G. K. Chesterton | |
| 122384e | The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d5e1eb0 | In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid, because the facts are familiar; and for fallen men it is often true that familiarity is fatigue. I am convinced that if we could tell the supernatural story of Christ word for word as of a Chinese hero, call him the Son of Heaven instead of the Son of God, and trace his rayed nimbus in the gold thread of Chine.. | myth jesus fable skepticism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 3d02a46 | The kingdom of heaven promised us certain things: it promised us happiness and a sense of purpose and a sense of having a place in the universe, of having a role and a destiny that were noble and splendid; and so we were connected to things. We were not alienated. But now that, for me anyway, the King is dead, I find that I still need these things that heaven promised, and I'm not willing to live without them. I don't think I will continue .. | Philip Pullman | ||
| c246731 | Life is hard, Mr. Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same." "And this journey we're on? Is that folly or wisdom?" "The greatest wisdom I know." -- | Philip Pullman | ||
| a96dae3 | many good liars have no imagination at all its which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction | Philip Pullman | ||
| 8eb1953 | Why, yes, the moment you're born, your death comes into the world with you, and it's your death that takes you out. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 984e3a9 | Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone. | independence sally-lockhart upbringing | Philip Pullman | |
| ceb8fdd | Shame to die with one bullet left, though. | Philip Pullman | ||
| ba0bb69 | She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. | Philip Pullman | ||
| eb8abd8 | And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. | Philip Pullman | ||
| 0eae435 | one thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing a fantasy. I hadn't expected ever to write a fantasy, because I am not a great fantasy fan. But I realized that I could use the apparatus of fantasy to say things that I thought were true. Which was exactly what, I then realized, Milton had been doing with Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is not a story of people and some other .. | Philip Pullman |