Detached Quotes - Page 8

• I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

  Antonin Artaud

  Soul, Mind, Creation

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment.

  Rollo May

  Spiritual, Technology, Becoming

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• To be the authentic is to be detached and stand aside from oneself and the work so that the working process can take on an untrammeled life of its own. Labored self-involvement, contrivance, ulterior motives, even the extraordinary facility that one may have, must be let go.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Letting Go, Self, May

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• Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.

  Gary Chapman

  Summer, Moving, Fall

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• Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

  Gilberto Gil

  Artist, Political, Musician

  "Minister of Counterculture". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2005.

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• Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

  Harold Innis

  Memories, Writing, Collective Memory

  Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To have the detached eye of the occultist, to look outward, to not be so self-reflective and to learn to step through the various viewpoints of consciousness - that we call occultism - leads to freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Self, Looks

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• Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand exposé. News Junkie provides the best account so far of how, and why, current American journalism has become so pharisaical, spineless, and detached from the truth

  T. D. Allman

  Hands, Jason, News

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• I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

  Richard Gere

  Actors, Pieces, Brutal

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

  Anna Kavan

  Mountain, Lasts, Cold

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• I am a Piscean, and they have a lovingly detached attitude towards life.

  Shahid Kapoor

  Attitude, Attitude Towards Life

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• The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).

  Anita Roddick

  Communication, Organization, Growth

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• We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Suffering, Doe

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Dec 26, 2016

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• One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

  Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

  Hands, Needs, World

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• The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.

  Michael Crichton

  Caring, Doctors, Feelings

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

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• I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Life, Happiness, Reading

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• Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.

  Paul Tillich

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Expression

  Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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• The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

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• But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all theabstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature.

  Giambattista Vico

  Art, Writing, Numbers

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• Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.

  Max Picard

  Cities, World, Noise

  Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”

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• Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

  John le Carre

  Party, Desert, Disillusionment

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• You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Perfect, Desire

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Speech, Information, Entertaining

  "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time, August 7, 1939.

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• Detachment from things does not mean setting up a contradiction between 'things' and 'God' as if God were another thing and as if creatures were His rivals. We do not detach ourselves from things in order to attach ourselves to God, but rather we become detached from ourselves in order to see and use all things in and for God.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Mean, Order

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.

  Nick Hornby

  Knows

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