Men Quotes - Page 1065

The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts of largesse, of humor. As a gesture to the spirit, warriors bring out the best of themselves and silently offer it to the abstract.

Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.

This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.