Rooted Quotes - Page 23

• In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Artist, Order

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• Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Reflection, Imagination

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.76

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• Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

  Simone Weil

  Roots

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.45, Routledge

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• Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all I ask of any man is validity; and there should be place for every type and kind of mind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Men, Mind

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.34, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Moral, Virtue

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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• To experience conflicts knowingly, though it may be distressing, can be an invaluable asset. The more we face our own conflicts and seek out our own solutions, the more inner freedom and strength we will gain. Only when we are willing to bear the brunt can we approximate the ideal of being the captain of our ship. Spurious tranquillity rooted in inner dullness is anything but enviable. It is bound to make us weak and an easy prey to any kind of influence.

  Karen Horney

  Faces, Bears, May

  Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.27, Routledge

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• When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Mean, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing, for example can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned in my small geography when I was a child, namely, 'The French are a gay and polite people fond of dancing and light wines.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, Memories, Wine

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• It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

  Alice Munro

  Wind, Land, Mind

  Alice Munro (1990). “Friend of my youth: stories”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.

  Elaine Morgan

  Believe, Men, Race

  Elaine Morgan (1973). “The descent of woman”

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• To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Moving, Thinking

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• churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

  Georgia Harkness

  Hands, Religion, Church

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• Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

  Karl Popper

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Roots

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.95, Routledge

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• It's rooted in my blood to consume you and be consumed by you. To protect you. To please you, in every way. To make you shiver when I touch you. To cause your heart to beat faster.

  Shelly Crane

  Heart, Blood, Way

  Shelly Crane (2011). “Significance: A Significance Novel”, p.298, Kiss Me Publications, LLC

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• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Political, Intellectual, Progress

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• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memories, Blood, People

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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  Frances Mayes

  Grandfather, Cotton, Georgia

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• Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

  RuPaul

  Superstitions, Observation, Clear

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• The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

  Jojo Moyes

  Mother, Children, Rocks

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• We must seek to be firmly rooted and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

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• The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are rooted in a Christian perspective of the nature of government and the nature of man. The challenge of the next millennium will be to preserve the American experiment by restoring its Christian perspective.

  William H. Pryor, Jr.

  Christian, Men, Perspective

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• Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Library, May

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Attitude, Golf

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• Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted.

  Aristotle

  Strong, Passion, Men

  Aristotle (2012). “Rhetoric”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people unless they conform with the traditions of our race, deeply grooved in their sentiments through a century and a half of struggle for ideals of life that are rooted in religion and fed from purely spiritual springs.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Spring, Struggle

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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