Quotes about t
travel nature imagination
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. Aldo Leopold
two done might
Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible. Aldous Huxley
time intuition duration
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
technology yield rabbits
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
taken progress gains
Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.
truth freedom knowledge
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
thinking should-have people
It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.
travel heart cutting
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
thinking self mind
I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.
talent virtue substitutes
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
tragedy looks comedy
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
two world way
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
two feet west
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...
truth brave-new-world two
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!
time blood world
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
time numbers race
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
taste traveller written
For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
too-much brave-new-world-happiness brave-new-world-freedom
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.
trying lsd last-words
Try LSD, 100mg intramuscular... I thought so.
thinking important way
Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics.
training experience significant
Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
taken men data
The man who has successfully solved the problem of his relations with the two worlds of data and symbols is a man who has no beliefs. With regard to the problems of practical life he entertains a series of working hypotheses, which serve his purposes, but are taken no more seriously than any other kind of tool or instrument. In other words, symbols should never be raised to the rank of dogmas, nor should any system be regarded as more than a provisional convenience.
tired lust body
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
taste acquire
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
thinking conflict incompatibility
I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.
two desire tasks
All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
taken eye feet
Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.
technology government ineptitude
Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
thinking people abuse
To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.
thinking temptation artistic
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
taste facts mass
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
truth mistake men
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
thinking self feelings
"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.