Shunning Quotes

• Había muchas formas de no cargar la conciencia, de eludir responsabilidades, de mirar hacia otro lado, de callar. Cuando al final de la guerra se conoció la incalificable verdad del Holocausto, demasiados de nosotros afirmamos que no habíamos sabido nada al respecto, ni siquiera sospechado nada.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  War, Responsibility, Holocaust

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• La superstición, ese horrible íncubo que habitaba en las tinieblas y rehuía la luz, con sus estantes, sus cálices envenenados y sus asquerosas corrientes de aire para dormir, está desapareciendo sin retorno. La religión no puede desaparecer. La quema de un poco de paja puede ocultar las estrellas del cielo; pero las estrellas están ahí y volverán a aparecer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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• Pero todos reconocemos la principal debilidad de la frágil humanidad: nuestra propensión a abrazar la esperanza y rehuir la lógica, nuestra tendencia a creer lo que deseamos en lugar de lo que observamos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Humanity, Religion

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• El que no sabe y no sabe que no sabe: es un necio -- evítalo.
  El que no sabe y sabe que no sabe: es simple -- enséñale.

  Isabel Burton

  Knowledge, Simple, Fool

  Lady Isabel Burton (1893). “The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton”

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• On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.

  Horace Mann

  Light, Faces, Causes

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.123

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• ...evitando asimismo la acumulación de deudas, no sólo evitando las ocasiones de gasto, sino realizando vigorosos esfuerzos en tiempos de paz para saldar las deudas que las inevitables guerras hayan ocasionado, no arrojando sin generosidad sobre la posteridad la carga que nosotros mismos deberíamos soportar.

  George Washington

  War, Government Debt, Owing A Debt

  George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.16

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• Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Loneliness, Book

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.338

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• El místico perfecto no es un devoto extático perdido en la contemplación de la Unidad, ni un santo recluso que rehúye todo comercio con la humanidad, sino que "el verdadero santo" entra y sale entre la gente y come y duerme con ellos y compra y vende en el mercado y se casa y participa en las relaciones sociales, y nunca olvida a Dios ni un solo momento.

  Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr

  God, Spiritual, Single Mom

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• La mujer virtuosa huye del peligro; confía más en su prudencia para rehuirlo que en su fuerza para vencerlo.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Overcoming, Virtuous Woman, Danger

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• Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Blessing, Wings, Perfect

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

  Plutarch

  Friends, Pain, True Friend

  Plutarch (1898). “Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays”

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• Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mind, World, Blame

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• Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pain, Writing, Epic

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• Este es el peor problema de los museos de historia viviente. Siempre dejan fuera las mejores partes. Como el tifus. Y el opio. Y las letras escarlatas. El rechazo. La quema de brujas.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Museums, Burning, Letters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.29, Random House

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• In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Things In Life, Drunk

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.475, e-artnow

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• Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Lying, Baths, Tubs

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• En ningún pasaje de los santos libros canónicos se encuentra precepto divino o permiso alguno para quitarnos la vida, ya sea para entrar en el goce de la inmortalidad, o para rehuir o librarnos de cualquier cosa. Es más, la ley, correctamente interpretada, prohíbe incluso el suicidio, cuando dice: "No matarás". Esto se prueba especialmente por la omisión de las palabras "tu prójimo", que se insertan cuando se prohíbe el falso testimonio.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9337, Aeterna Press

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• ¡Tal vez el autor citado es uno de aquellos, que, rehuyendo la práctica del mundo, han enseñado al mundo a rehuir el retorno! cuya poesía es demasiado finamente hilada, cuya filosofía es demasiado y mistificada para la demanda popular: tal vez hemos experimentado el sentimiento que el Sr. Wordsworth alude, en un poema digno de la sencillez y la soledad del sentimiento "A menudo he suspirado para medir Por mí mismo un placer solitario; Suspiré al pensar que leí un libro ¡Sólo leído tal vez por mí!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Loneliness

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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• And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

  Garth Stein

  Mistake, Desire, Wonder

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

  Libba Bray

  Pregnancy, School, Class

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• Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Views, Differences, Perspective

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2017). “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dichoso el que vive en el campo, sin preocupaciones ni conflictos. Que estudiando la paz, y evitando la ira civil, Disfrutó de su juventud, y ahora disfruta de su edad: A todos los que merecen su amor, los hace suyos; y, para ser amado, sólo necesita ser conocido.

  John Dryden

  Vida, Patria, Paz

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.312, Delphi Classics

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• Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that willfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to cause others to kill, runs counter to the deepest instincts of human beings.

  Philip Kapleau

  Running, Buddhist, Animal

  Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

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• You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

  Jerry Saltz

  Sports, Blood, Taste

  "Has Money Ruined Art?". nymag.com. October 7, 2007.

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