Thousand Quotes - Page 17

• I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Fall, Flames, Color

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• In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Night, Creative, Exaltation

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Kill one, terrify a thousand.

  Sun Tzu

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• Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Art, Hero, Labels

  "Domesticated Deities: About Messiahs Come to Redeem Our Country, Not Govern It" by Lewis Lapham, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

  Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

  Fog, Sea, Islands

  "The Scourge Of Teleprompters" by Jack Valenti, www.nytimes.com. July 10, 1984.

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• I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Space, Suffering, World

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• You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.

  I. F. Stone

  Men, Impact, Views

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• [Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Men, Thinking

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• It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Events, May

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.68

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• Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hero, Men, Evil

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• Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Sin, Forgotten

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• Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Rain, Caring, Blow

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• I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights.

  Jack Ma

  Night, Names, Doors

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• Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in constant flux, the "why" has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what's right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us - a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Past, Rivers, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.61, Modern Library

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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Past, Years

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• We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Style, Heirs

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• The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Years, Mind

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• And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Believe, Space

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• But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.

  Terence McKenna

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Loyalty, Children, Years

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• We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, Reality, Engineering

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• Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a titled, noble people.

  Paul Sorvino

  Knights, Years, People

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• A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.

  James Q. Wilson

  Broken, Connections, Window

  James Q. Wilson (1983). “Thinking about Crime”, Vintage

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• On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  College, Men, Boston

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