Accepting Quotes - Page 33

• A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

  Franz Bardon

  Maturity, Levels, Force

  "Initiation Into Hermetics". Book by Franz Bardon, p. 55, 1956.

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• I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion! Soon I'll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it's a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.

  Max Barry

  Book, Thinking, Guy

  "Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 24, 2005.

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• Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

  Charlie Brooker

  Believe, Mind, Want

  "When It Comes to Psychics, My Stance Is Hardcore: They Must Die Alone in Windowless Cells". www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2006.

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• Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.

  John Carroll

  Self, Political, Theatre

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• Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

  William James

  Mother, Lying, Mystical Experiences

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• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

  Al Alvarez

  Art, Real, Resistance

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

  Neal Stephenson

  Distance, Loss, Valleys

  FaceBook post by Neal Stephenson from Oct 02, 2011

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• I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  People, Might, Poor

  Interview with Charlie Rose, January 31, 2007.

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• The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose."

  Andrew Tobias

  Cost, Noses, Lines

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously.

  Robert M. Price

  Jesus, Historical, Denial

  "The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief". Book by Tom Flynn, 2007.

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• We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Law, Understanding, Want

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• If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Real, Government, Views

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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• Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

  Lloyd deMause

  Psychology, Mystical, Rational

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

  Karl Donitz

  Responsibility, Laughing, Soldier

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

  Winnie Ewing

  Voice, Whales, Scotland

  Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).

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• To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Spiritual, Attitude, Mean

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  World, Lord, Persons

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “Teología de la liberación”

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• If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.

  Nick Minchin

  Party, Believe, People

  "Malcolm and the Malcontents" by Sarah Ferguson, www.abc.net.au. November 09, 2009.

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• Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.

  Steve Sailer

  Believe, Self, Issues

  "The Left Doesn't Like Darwin Either". vdare.com, August 7, 2005.

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• I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Men, Views, Ideas

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Land, Shadow, Tasks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 378), 1895.

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• [M]any people would accept that we do not really have knowledge of the world; we have knowledge only of our representations of the world. Yet we seem condemned by our consitution to treat these representations as if they were the world, for our everyday experience feels as if it were of a given and immediate world.

  Francisco Varela

  People, Everyday, World

  "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 142, 1991.

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• I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

  Stella Vine

  Self, Age, Able

  "The 5-Minute Interview: Stella Vine: 'There have been a few times" by Karl Mansfield, The Independent, November 28, 2005.

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• How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  War, Eye, Men

  "The Strange Necessity" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1969.

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• To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Past, Views, Church

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