Allen Wheelis Quotes

• The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

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  Suffering, Action, Insight

  Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”

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• One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

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  Animal, Herds, Tendencies

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• Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.

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  Men, Emotional, Risk

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• Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

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  Alternatives, May, Consciousness

  Allen Wheelis (1970). “The desert”

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• The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

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  Science, Giving, Honest

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• So briefly do we raise our heads, so quick sink back. For a moment we are lifted by a wave of time, are tossed up into the sunlight of consciousness We cannot see so far as where this wave began, but maybe we have waited some thousand years for it to come, and now it is on us. This is our moment, the wave is breaking. The crest which passes through us now in tumult was shaped by the past, and we in this moment are able to shape the crest which is to come.

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  Past, Years, Shapes

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• Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

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  Despair, Desire, Intense

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