Elsewhere Quotes - Page 4

• Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

  Samuel Beckett

  Death, Air, Dying

  First Love (1973) p. 8

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• When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, People, Understanding

  Joseph Campbell (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.53, New World Library

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• True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, True Joy, Looks

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• It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Moving, Science

  "The Essential Aristotle".

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• It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, True Friend, Stupid

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• Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Taken, Eye, Vision

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.63, Verso

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• The character of Anglo-American civilization . . . is the product . . . of two perfectly distinct elements that elsewhere have often made war with each other, but which, in America, they have succeeded in incorporating somehow into one another and combining marvelously. I mean to speak of the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Character, Mean

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• Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me

  William Shakespeare

  Doors, Refuse, Mines

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatio Works of W. Shakespeare: With Glossarial Notes. A Sketch of His Life. And an Estimate of His”, p.740

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• Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.

  Laozi

  Men, Intelligent, Doors

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• In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.

  Paul Ludwig Landsberg

  Real, Love Is, Mind

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• When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Population, Three, World

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 5, as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1517.

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• If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came benefited. Because nobody would come unless he, or his family, thought he would do better here than he would elsewhere. And, the new immigrants provided additional resources, provided additional possibilities for the people already here. So everybody can mutually benefit.

  Milton Friedman

  People, Benefits, Way

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the rest of the world. And they have had this all through the centuries and are very much heightened by modern communications. I mean now you have Muslims in the Muslim world who can compare their situations with people elsewhere and they find that very humiliating.

  Bernard Lewis

  Communication, Mean, People

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• Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

  Gregory Maguire

  Doe, Wickedness, Breakfast

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• The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

  Abraham Maslow

  Ignorance, Miracle, Family And Friends

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• Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Stars, Cat, Eye

  Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Snack Thief”, p.125, Pan Macmillan

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• The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Made, Concrete

  Wendell Berry (2009). “Remembering”, p.96, Counterpoint Press

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• For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

  John Calvin

  Art, Mind, Principles

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• ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Noses

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• I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

  Albert Camus

  Space, Fog, Sea

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• . . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

  Richard Paul Evans

  War, Character, Winter

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• Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for a walk, the cat you play with and that curls up in your lap, purring, to be stroked - you can be fond of them, you can even need them to a certain extent, and nonetheless the whole thing - buying pet food, cleaning up the cat box, and trips to the vet - is really too much. Your life is elsewhere.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Dog, Cat, Play

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.30, Vintage

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• The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere, we shall demonstrate an important connection between these disturbances and genital cancer in women, which is so common. Thus, the "deadning of the pelvis" has the same function as the deadening of the abdomen, i.e., to avoid feelings, particularly those of pleasure and anxiety.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Cancer, Men, Anxiety

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• If women don't lead, nobody else is going to, because nobody else feels as passionately as we do about injustices. We feel passionate about injustices to women and girls, and not in exclusion to injustices elsewhere.

  Jocelynne Scutt

  Leadership, Girl, Passionate

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