537 quotes found
Time after the present
“Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.”
“We must learn, then, not to HAVE a spirituality, something we turn on at a particular place or time, but to BE spiritual, as a habit of life, a continuous state of being. It is to this end that we ...”
“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.”
“It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.”
“If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, dont be in any doubt about what that means for us: in each of those two thousand five hundreds cases...”
“Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by all who need them. This ability to innovat...”
“As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950...”
“We are condemned to be modern. We cant escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it... But it has become our hist...”
“We live in an exciting time. We now know more than ever about our biology and about our history, allowing us to peer into the future with greater clarity than has previously been possible. But at t...”
“One ought to have some sort of transcendent realization that the world exists because the gods are trapped in the same abyss you've occupied for three years. It should be inspiring or comforting or...”
“There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themsel...”
“I perceived quite early that I was a reader, and most of the people I came into contact with were not. It made a barrier. What they wanted to talk about were things they had eaten, touched, or done...”
“Every civilisation has had its irrational but reassuring myth. Previous civilisations have used their culture to sing about it and tell stories about it. Ours has used its mathematics to prove it.”
“Ultimately, we all have to decide what our own life is for. I will die one day, and, whether my day is near or far, I choose to look back on my time and know that I walked through the doors that in...”
“You cannot travel to the known”
“Blame anchors us into the past”
“Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on brin...”
“A child-like mind is full of imagination.”
“Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt...”
“You have to be able to look objectively at the problem, deflating the emotional part of it.”
