Philosophy & Thought: Deep Quotes

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"Man tells his aspiration in his God, but in his demon he shows his depth of experience"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"This is the very womb and bed of enormity"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"I love to lose myself in other men's minds"

Charles Lamb, Critic

Charles Lamb

"Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

R. D. Laing

"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

R. D. Laing

"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

Paul Lynde

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

Margaret Fuller

"If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less"

Charles Lamb, Critic

Charles Lamb

"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman"

Andre Malraux, Author

Andre Malraux

"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it"

Andre Malraux, Author

Andre Malraux

"We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible"

Novalis, Poet

Novalis

"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten"

Andre Breton, Poet

Andre Breton

"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth"

Denis Diderot, Editor

Denis Diderot

"I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"Physical beauty is such a strange thing"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe"

Le Corbusier, Architect

"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man"

Roland Barthes, Critic

Roland Barthes

"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it"

Roland Barthes, Critic

Roland Barthes

"Philosophy is for the few"

William Gilbert, Composer

William Gilbert

"The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell"

Adrienne Rich, Poet

"Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

Eric Cantona

"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past, which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

Wilfrid Laurier

"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man"

John Berger, Artist

John Berger

"For an introvert, his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

Quentin Crisp

"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical, there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

"Is there no way out of the mind?"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

Daniel J. Boorstin

"Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

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