Fundamentals Quotes - Page 31

• We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Creativity, Creative, Asking

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• If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.

  Harold Laski

  Peace, Spirit, Absence

  Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.33, Routledge

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• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

  William James

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

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• At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Laying Down, Firsts, Facts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.190

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• L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Firsts, Absurd

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• I'm sure civilizations will still evolve through play, or rather as play, since that seems to be a fundamental mechanism of our humanity.

  Diane Ackerman

  Civilization, Play, Humanity

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.210, Vintage

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• The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Class, Labels

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.

  Tom Robbins

  Progress, Evolution, Hallmark

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.69, Bantam

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• An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

  Ayn Rand

  Artist, Reality, Men

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.400, Penguin

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• The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Giving, Environmental

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• We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  Abraham Maslow

  Often Is, Humanity, Birth

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Optimism

  Chogyam Trungpa (2011). “Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness”, p.214, Shambhala Publications

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• And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Essence, Accomplishment, Mind

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• God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Real, Ocean, Gains

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• The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Women, Drawing, Personality

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• The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

  Michael Heseltine

  Party, Conservative, Conservative Party

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• The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but the ;thesis that the exercise of this right redounds to the general good.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Exercise, Ideas, Modern

  Ralph Barton Perry (1964). “Puritanism and Democracy”

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• On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.

  Raymond Williams

  Country, Powerful, Communication

  Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.

  Pope Paul VI

  Teaching, Men, Practice

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• Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, People, May

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• I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

  Peter Hain

  Successful, Thinking, Ideas

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• The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

  Herbert Read

  Artist, Purpose, Facts

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• The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

  Bruce Schneier

  Geek, Computer, Economics

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• As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

  Lawrence Summers

  Strong, Long, Dollars

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• If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger.

  Ron Reagan

  Christian, Dog, Jesus

  "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions for Ronald P. Reagan". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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