Other Worlds Quotes - Page 6

• We need to be skeptical of utopianists who offer unreliable totalistic visions of other worlds and strive to take us there. We need some ideals, but we also need to protect ourselves from the miscalculations and misadventures of visionaries.

  Paul Kurtz

  Vision, Atheism, Needs

  Paul Kurtz (1992). “The New Skepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge”

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• Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Art, Keys, Needs

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jill Lloyd (2003). “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years”

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• I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

  James Gunn

  Strong, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Coming here, I sharpened and fine-tuned everything I had and needed. What I thought of as myself as a performer, I looked back and was like, ‘Wow, I improved from where I was.’ I thought I was ready and then saw the improvements I made which were unbelievable. It makes the transition from down here to up there (the WWE roster) so much easier because you’re prepared for what they need you to do. It’s not like you’re jumping into a whole other world. You’re prepared for what they need.

  Bo Dallas

  Wwe, Jumping, Wow

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• What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Girl, Party, Lovely

  Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”

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• For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads," and the "Bhagavad Gita."

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Book, Thinking, Gita

  "An Autobiography". Book by Jawaharlal Nehru, 1936.

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• Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

  Edward Abbey

  Home, Reality, Heaven

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

  Martial

  Pride, Generosity, Different

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• We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

  James Carroll

  Spiritual, Memories, Moving

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• Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Leader, Important

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Cinema has changed the world. If you go to the beginning of the cinema, you can see that the world started meeting other worlds. It was extraordinary. We saw how other people were living and thinking. How they were sad or happy. We also saw the body - naked or half-naked people, which was prohibited everywhere by religions. This was extremely important.

  Costa-Gavras

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: progressive.org

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• What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Believe, Religion

  "Herbert Hoover: A Good President Who Got a Bad Rap?". www.wnd.com. October 19, 2017.

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• The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.

  Mel Gibson

  Cnn, People, Insanity

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I would love to compose more fantasy music, whether it's for a film or a game. That genre has so much opportunity for harmonic experimentation, not to mention all the interesting instruments that become available when composing music for alien species and other worlds.

  Jason Graves

  Opportunity, Games, Interesting

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• The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Past, Civilization, Ideas

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• There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Firsts, Problem, Trash

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• Seek for the endless life in the world, because with death, there remains neither the seeker nor the sought! The other world is altogether an illusion! Stop deceiving yourself; seek for the endless life in the world!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Illusion, Deceiving

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• The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Exercise, Focus

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• The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  East, West, Christianity

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• I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Stuff, Fans, Fiction

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

  Norman Mailer

  Children, Real, War

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• Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

  Herman Melville

  God, Lying, Ideas

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.272, Herman Melville

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• I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

  Moliere

  Love, Heart, Wish

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• The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in.

  William James

  Two, Filters, Energy

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.463, Library of America

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