Degenerates Quotes - Page 3

• The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

  Idries Shah

  Espiritual, Escuela, Pensamiento

  "The Commanding Self".

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• ¿Y dónde encontrará [Hume,] este hijo degenerado de la ciencia, este traidor a sus semejantes, el origen de los poderes justos, si no es en la mayoría de la sociedad? ¿Será en la minoría? ¿O en un individuo de esa minoría?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hijo, Hombres, Democracia

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). "The Essential Jefferson", p.261, Hackett Publishing

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• Ahora exigimos la artillería ligera del intelecto; necesitamos lo breve, lo condensado, lo agudo, lo fácilmente difundible, en lugar de lo ampuloso, lo detallado, lo voluminoso, lo inaccesible. Por otra parte, la ligereza de la artillería no debe degenerar en pop-gunnería, término con el que podemos designar el carácter de la mayor parte de la prensa periódica, cuyo único objeto legítimo es la discusión de asuntos efímeros de una manera efímera.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Light, Hands

  Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Literati”, p.499

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• Creo que los 26 son el punto de inflexión. Tengo que compensar 10 años de vivir como un degenerado. De repente me he dado cuenta de que no soy sano. Has pasado todo tu tiempo libre desde los 15 años en un pub. Y de repente te dices: 'Oh Dios, no quiero ser este fantasma gris sentado ahí con barriga. Tengo que recomponerme.

  Robert Pattinson

  Pensar, Años, Edad

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• I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and to be worthy to enter the holy temple, to 'arise and shine forth,' to stand above the worldly clamor and to, as Isaiah prophesied, 'Come to the mountain of the Lord'-the holy temple.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Hero, Angel, Shining

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• Beyond Words is an exceptionally useful and inspiring digest of Dzogchen (Great Perfection) teachings and the teachers associated  with them. The ancient prediction that Dzogchen would benefit many during these degenerate times, makes this comprehensive introduction  especially relevant. The authors have made these profound teachings accessible and Beyond Words will be useful to both inexperienced and seasoned readers.

  Tsultrim Allione

  Teacher, Teaching, Perfection

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• The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

  Walter Map

  Hate, Persistent

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• Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Order, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). "Proceso y realidad: un ensayo de cosmología", Free Pr

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• Si nadie habla de libros, si no se discute sobre ellos o no se les disputa de alguna manera, la literatura deja de ser una conversación, deja de ser dinámica. Sobre todo, deja de ser íntima. Degenera en un monólogo o en un murmullo. Un libro sin reseña es una campana golpeada que no resuena. Sin reseñas, la literatura sería extrañamente muda a pesar de todas esas palabras en todas esas páginas de todos esos libros. Las reseñas hacen de la lectura un deporte de participantes, no de espectadores.

  Patricia Hampl

  Deporte, Libro, Lectura

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• MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

  Wilhelm Reich

  Animal, Men, Peaceful

  "La psicología de masas del fascismo". Libro de Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Victim

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.

  Homer

  Fuerte, Hombres, Dos

  Homer (1836). “Homer”, p.294

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• And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

  Thomas Browne

  Taken, Men, Years

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.79

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• Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Mind, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.102, editionNEXT.com

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• En cualquier caso, su enseñanza religiosa consistía sobre todo en observaciones éticas más o menos vagas, una oscura mezcla de ideales de caballerosidad inglesa y sus nociones favoritas de higiene personal. Todo el mundo sabía que su clase podía degenerar en una demostración de algunos puntos prácticos sobre el remo, con Buggy sentado en la mesa y mostrándonos cómo se tira de un remo.

  Thomas Merton

  Sabiduría, Religión, Enseñanza

  Thomas Merton (1998). "La montaña de los siete pisos", p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• El amor a la bondad sin amor al aprendizaje degenera en simpleza. El amor al conocimiento sin amor al saber degenera en una absoluta falta de principios. El amor a la fidelidad sin amor al aprendizaje degenera en una injuriosa indiferencia a las consecuencias. El amor a la rectitud sin amor al aprendizaje degenera en dureza. El amor al valor sin amor al aprendizaje degenera en insubordinación. El amor al carácter fuerte sin amor al aprendizaje degenera en mera temeridad.

  Confucius

  Amor, Fuerte, Aprender

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• Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Religion, Decent

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• No mires atrás. No, ni aunque veas llorar a los más queridos y cercanos. No mires atrás, sino adelante. No podemos detenernos. Si nos detenemos, morimos. Tenemos que avanzar o retroceder. Tenemos que progresar o degenerar.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Progress

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• A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Educación, Ciencia, Personas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). "Mein Kampf", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.

  John Galt

  Evil, Mind, Degrees

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• There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nice, Simple, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.29, David M Gross

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• La lujuria del oro sucede a la furia de la conquista; ¡La lujuria del oro, insensible y despiadada! La última corrupción del hombre degenerado.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Lust, Gold

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.328

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• Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

  Francis Atterbury

  Madness, Hospitality, Sometimes

  Francis Atterbury, Nitish K. Basu (1740). “A History of English Literature: The Norman conquest to the dawn of Renaissance & Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.105

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• Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

  Isabella Beeton

  Income, Waste, Kind

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• Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Dirty, Indulge In

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