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All Quotes Collection
"Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is."
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"As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey."
57
"Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."
42
"I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way."
54
"Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others."
45
"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life."
38
"When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity."
48
"The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are."
37
"The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times."
53
"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you."
56
"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems."
42
"If you're religious, it gives you a perspective."
38
"What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence."
43
"If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you."
34
"Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact."
53
"Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues."
48
"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life."
59
"All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many."
94
"Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power."
62
"I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too."
45
"Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity."
61
"And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view."
62
"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words."
45
"Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity."
59
"The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous."
75
"We are living in a world that is beyond controllability."
43
"The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion."
48
"You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances."
40
"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
46
"You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country."
54
"When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans."
57
"We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations."
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