Realms Quotes - Page 17

• To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

  John Knox

  Order, Cities, Justice

  1558 First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.

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• History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

  Terence McKenna

  Buddhist, Opposites, Rushing

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.

  Jean Houston

  Trying, Doe, Sparks

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• People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Mean, Blessing, Men

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• Succinct, thorough, and masterfully researched-Thomas Medvetz has written a subtle and timely history of these fixtures of public debate in the United States. In the realms of culture studies, policy, and policy formation, there is no book quite like Think Tanks in America. Plus which, no one has understood, interpreted, then used Pierre Bourdieu's ideas better-so well that Bourdieu himself would have been pleased.

  Charles Lemert

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

  Corliss Lamont

  Ethics, Willing, Courses

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• The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

  James Jeans

  Reality, Jeans, Mind

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.125, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.

  Plotinus

  Beauty, Beautiful, Character

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.

  George William Curtis

  Inspirational, Life, Rich

  George William Curtis (1852). “Lotus-eating: a Summer Book”, p.191

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• Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.

  Dion Fortune

  Reality, Views, People

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• I used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; you’re tearing into the numbers, you’re valuing the businesses, you’re assigning a consolidated value, and hopefully you’re seeing something the market doesn’t see.But now I’ve learned that there’s a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

  James Chanos

  Fall, Thinking, Skills

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• There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Real, Trying

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• The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Emotional, Humans, Emotional Life

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

  Paul Farmer

  Technology, Discovery, Humanity

  Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.144, Univ of California Press

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• The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, moving from the lowest, densest, and most fragmentary realms to the highest, subtlest, and most unitary ones.

  Ken Wilber

  Philosophy, Moving, Psychology

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

  Murray Rothbard

  Way, Behaviour, Modern

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• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  Leonard Susskind

  Philosophy, Science, Reality

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• The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Expression, Color

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.

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• Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.

  Neil Postman

  Forever, Identity, Links

  Neil Postman (2011). “Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future”, p.161, Vintage

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• I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Giving, Style

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• I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.

  T. D. Jakes

  Next, Glory, I Can

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• There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

  T. D. Jakes

  Reign, Influence, Authority

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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• I know perfectly well that only in happy instants am I lucky enough to lose myself in my work. The painter-poet feels that his true immutable essence comes from that invisible realm that offers him an image of reality....I feel that I do not exist in time, but that time exists in me. I can also realize that it is not given to me to solve the mystery of art in an absolute fashion. Nonetheless, I am almost brought to believe that I am about to get my hands on the divine.

  Carlo Carra

  Fashion, Art, Believe

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