quotesforintellectuals

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“Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will establish themselves. But they have suffered so much in their lives for these ideas, and have paid so high a price for them that it becomes very painful, indeed almost impossible, for them to part with them.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

#dostoyevsky #ideas #philosophy #ideology #political ideology #stop glorifying communism

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"It's not talking but walking that will get us to heaven." - Matthew Henry

#walking #hiking #the road #walk #heaven #talking #movement

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The world will do everything that it knows how to talk you out of it. The media will do it, the people around you will do it, from business to friendship. They don’t mean you harm; they mean you nothing. They don’t come with bad intention; they don’t come with good intention. They just show up in your life. It’s up to you to be a filter. And the only way that you can have a filter is by knowing what you really want.

Gary Keller, author of The BIG One

#gary keller #the big one #quotes #filter #people #friendship #pursue your dreams #focus #empowerment

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“The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.” “The most common one-liner in the Bible is, 'Do not be afraid.' Someone counted, and it occurs 365 times.”

- Richard Rohr, Falling Upward

#god #love #lover #spirituality #mysticism #falling upward #book quotes #fear #do not be afraid #bible

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"Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century is determined neither by bacteria nor by viruses, but by neurons. Neurological illnesses such as depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and burnout syndrome mark the landscape of pathology at the beginning of the twenty-first century. They are not infections, but infarctions; they do not follow from the negativity of what is immunologically foreign, but from an excess of positivity. Therefore, they elude all technologies and techniques that seek to combat what is alien."

The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han

#burnout #the burnout society #quotes #book #chapter #nonfiction #philosophy #toxic positivity #positivity

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“Life is either a daring adventure or it’s nothing.”

— Helen Keller

#helen keller #adventure #life #quotes #living #landmark #daring

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The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

— Theodore Roosevelt

#Theodore Roosevelt #roosevelt #wilderness #nature #freedom #loneliness #solitude

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"At any moment you close your eyes, first you will see thoughts, a layer of thinking all around you, thoughts vibrating – one coming, another going – a crowd, a traffic. Remain silent for a few seconds, and suddenly you will see that thinking is no longer there but dreaming has started. You are dreaming that you have become the president of a country, or you have found a brick of gold on the road, or you have found a beautiful woman or a man, and suddenly you start projecting; dreams start functioning. If you continue dreaming for a long time, one moment will come when you will fall asleep – thinking, dreaming, sleep, and from sleep again to dreaming and thinking. This is how your whole life revolves. Real awareness is not known yet, and that real awareness is what Patanjali says will destroy ignorance – not knowledge, but awareness. We collect knowledge just to befool ourselves and others."

Osho, Yoga: The Science of The Soul

#osho #yoga #dreaming #awareness #dreams #thinking #patanjali #meditation

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He didn't notice a single face as he took a seat. He saw neither teacher nor students, and was aware only of the heavenly light in the room, an orange glow from the autumnal foliage outside. The room seemed full of a sweet viscous liquid, a honey nearly light as air, which he breathed in. Time slowed down, and in his left ear the ringing of the cosmic Om started up clear as a telephone. When we suggested these details had been laced with the same THC in his blood, Trip Fontaine thrust a finger into the air, the only time his hands stopped shaking during the entire interview. 'I know what it's like to be high,' he said. 'This was different.' In the orange light the students' heads looked like sea anemones, undulating quietly, and the silence of the room was that of the ocean floor. 'Every second is eternal,' Trip told us, describing how as he sat in his desk the girl in front of him, for no apparent reason, had turned around and looked at him. He couldn't say she was beautiful because all he could see were her eyes. The rest of her face — the pulpy lips, the blond sideburn fuzz, the nose with its candy-pink translucent nostrils— registered dimly as the two blue eyes lifted him on a sea wave and held him suspended. 'She was the still point of the turning world,' he told us, quoting Eliot, whose Collected Poems he had found on the shelf of the detoxification center. For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.

– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

#Jeffrey Eugenides #The Virgin Suicides #virgin suicides #quote #literary quote #missing someone #missing #grief #love #love quotes

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"Look at the Darkness, giving birth to the Sun."

Khalil Gibran, Peace XVIII

#khalil gibran #darkness #light #sun #poetry #gibran #favorite #grief #this too shall pass

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"The electric buzz of rage had subsided, making room for some low-grade devastation, the kind she had become so used to feeling every time a new romantic intrigue gave out and made space again for memories of him."

- Lena Dunham, Verified Strangers

#lena dunham #verified strangers #heartbreak #heartache #grief #separation #divorce #loneliness #grieving

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"How strange our journey is through life, you know? We try and inject it with meaning, but at the end of the day all we have are days."

-- Adam, Girls S4E1

#girls #lena dunham #quotes #hbo #adam #life #journey

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"Some people are so far behind in a race that they actually believe they're leading."

#quotes #sopranos #the sopranos #junior soprano #tv quotes

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison.

#thomas edison #opportunity #work #overalls

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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

#Rudolf Arnheim #philosophy #perception #seeing #art #quotes #intuition #invention #reasoning #cognition #mind #arnheim #libraries

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“The book achieves a further mystery, of transforming what appears to be purely immaterial and conceptual into something with a concrete form.” - Brian Cummings

#brian cummings #cummings #books #libraries #library #library essay #the morgan #symbolism #symbols #books as symbols

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On a shelf in the library are very old books that tell of another past than the one the dreamer has known. Dreams, thoughts and memories weave a single fabric. The soul dreams and thinks, then it imagines.

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

#gaston bachelard #bachelard #philosophy #space #architecture #interior design #design philosophy #memory #library #libraries #books #bibliophile #booklover #dreams #memories #imagination