Daniel Quinn Citas

• Los indígenas creen que el Hombre pertenece al Mundo; los civilizados creen que el Mundo pertenece al Hombre.

  Daniel Quinn

  Creer, Hombres, Personas

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• The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight

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  Confused, Community, Records

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• You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world.

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  Order, Captivity, Goes On

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam

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• If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

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  Change, Mind, World

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

  Daniel Quinn

  Children, Future, People

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• Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

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  Life, Mother, Learning

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

  Daniel Quinn

  Song, Humanity, Luck

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• Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

  Daniel Quinn

  Inspiration, Ideas, Waiting

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• The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it have not accepted the very elementary psychological fact that people (all people, of every age) remember the things that are important to them - the things they need to know - and forget the rest.

  Daniel Quinn

  Niños, Ideas, Personas

  "Schooling: The Hidden Agenda". Daniel Quinn's Address at the Annual Conference of the North American Association for Environmental Education in Vancouver, Canada, www.ishmael.org. August 16, 1997.

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• People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

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  Aprendizaje, Conocimiento, Personas

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.189, Broadway Books

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• There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.

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  Lying, Odds, Feet

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.84, Bantam

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• There is no one right way to live.

  Daniel Quinn

  Way To Live, Way, Right Way

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• Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

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  Life, Men, Greed

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.83, Bantam

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• Para ustedes, el cristianismo, el judaísmo, el islam, el budismo y el hinduismo son muy diferentes, pero para mí son lo mismo. Muchos de ustedes dirían que algo como el budismo ni siquiera pertenece a la lista, ya que no vincula la salvación al culto divino, pero para mí esto es sólo una objeción. El cristianismo, el judaísmo, el islam, el budismo y el hinduismo perciben a los seres humanos como criaturas defectuosas y heridas que necesitan la salvación, y todos se basan fundamentalmente en revelaciones que explican cómo alcanzar la salvación, ya sea abandonando esta vida o elevándose por encima de ella.

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  Buddhism, Islam, Different

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• El animismo no es un sistema de creencias, sino una visión del mundo: El mundo es un lugar sagrado y nosotros formamos parte de él. La realidad de esta afirmación no es el problema. Decir que el mundo es un lugar sagrado es hacer una afirmación sobre valores, no sobre hechos. Es una afirmación sobre lo que entendemos por "sagrado", igual que "el dinero no puede comprar la felicidad" es una afirmación sobre lo que entendemos por "felicidad". En pocas palabras, el animismo no es un sistema de creencias, sino un sistema de valores.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mean, Issues, World

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• Lo crucial para vuestra supervivencia como raza no es la redistribución del poder y la riqueza dentro de la prisión, sino la destrucción de la propia prisión.

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, Survival, Prison

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• Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

  Daniel Quinn

  Way, Curious, Increase

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “My Ishmael”, p.65, Bantam

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• The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

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  Humanity, World, Captives

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam

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• The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

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  Race, World, Prison

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• The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

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  Men, Stories, World

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.239, Bantam

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• El mundo debe vivir. Sólo somos una especie entre miles de millones. Los dioses no nos quieren más de lo que quieren a las arañas, los osos, las ballenas o los nenúfares.

  Daniel Quinn

  Whales, Water Lily, Spiders

  Daniel Quinn (2010). “The Story of B”, p.324, Bantam

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• Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

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  Destino, Hombres, Gente

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

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  Life, Science, Moon

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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• And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world, or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

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  Mastery, World, Devastation

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere out there that man was the climax toward which creation had been straining from the beginning? ...Very far from it. The universe went on as before, the planet went on as before. Man's appearance caused no more stir than the appearance of jellyfish.

  Daniel Quinn

  Men, Birth, Appearance

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.58, Bantam

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