Recognition Quotes - Page 37

• Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Facts, Rationality

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

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• If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

  Bell Hooks

  Beloved Community, Differences, Justice

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• The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

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• In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked.

  Harold Brodkey

  Loneliness, Past, Self

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• Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dog, Men, Cities

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• I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

  Donna Tartt

  Shock

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.206, Vintage

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• Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Childhood, Phrases, Veils

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

  Irvine Welsh

  Order, Space, People

  Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity. Freedom is necessity overcome. Progress is, in essence, the progress of human freedom. Yes, and after all, life itself is freedom. The evolution of life is the evolution of freedom.

  Vasily Grossman

  Essence, Opposites, Humanity

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• Warm are the still and lucky miles, White shores of longing stretch away, A light of recognition fills The whole great day, and bright The tiny world of lovers' arms. Silence invades the breathing wood Where drowsy limbs a treasure keep, Now greenly falls the learned shade Across the sleeping brows And stirs their secret to a smile. Restored! Returned! The lost are borne On seas of shipwreck home at last: See! In a fire of praising burns The dry dumb past, and we Our life-day long shall part no more.

  W. H. Auden

  Fall, Sleep, Home

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• Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

  Richard Rorty

  Contingency

  Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.326, Cambridge University Press

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• The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Teaching, Godly, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.273, Penguin UK

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• I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.80, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

  T. H. White

  Men, Years, Reptiles

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.489, Penguin

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• For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Heart, Acceptance

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• To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Life, Writing, Heart

  Mary Baker Eddy (1964). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Commitment, Comfort, Sticks

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• Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

  Donald Miller

  Fashion, Believe, Dying

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Aug 05, 2010

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• India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Spiritual, Real, Ambition

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• I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sight, Female, Details

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.342, Penguin

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• I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.

  John Steinbeck

  Montana, Admiration, Affection

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• The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

  Surya Das

  Wisdom, Reality, Meditation

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• Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

  Freya Stark

  Discipline, Solitude, Ordinary

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• Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Art, Moving

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• Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

  Judith Butler

  Names, Social, Subordination

  Judith Butler (1997). “The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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