top of page
.png){kind=small}
"But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence."
Standard
Customized
More
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can stroke people with words."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale."
Communication
"What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition."
Thought
"A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on."
Society
"This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it."
Thought
"And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence."
Thought
"But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence."
People
"In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe."
Man
"Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture."
Culture
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
Knowledge
"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."
Technology
bottom of page