Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

Howard Rheingold

When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

Huston Smith

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Ian Hacking

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

Jacques Barzun

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

James Mark Baldwin

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Jean Baudrillard

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Jean Baudrillard

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

Jean Baudrillard

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jean Baudrillard

I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

Judith Butler

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

Judith Butler

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

Jean Baudrillard

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Dada Vaswani

Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?

Dada Vaswani

The drug problem’ cannot be understood without a critical examination of the language and narratives of underpinning the explanatory models invoked to prove that there is a 'drug problem.

Daniel Waterman

Moral ideas about what constitutes a meritorious or meaningful use of one’s life and opportunities produce specific attitudes towards drug use and intoxication.

Daniel Waterman

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

Emil Cioran

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.

Emil Cioran

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

Emil Cioran

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...

Emil Cioran

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Emil Cioran