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Wayne W. Dyer92
American writer 1940–2015Related quotes
“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”
Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now
Source: The Power of Now (1997), p. 76
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2003, The Play of Masks, World Wisdom, 12, 978-0-94153214-3]
Miscellaneous, Religion
“Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.”
Harlan F. Stone (1872–1946) United States federal judge
Reported in Alpheus Thomas Mason, Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law (1956), p. 95.
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
As quoted in A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages (2003) by Linda Pendleton.
“Without discipline true freedom cannot survive. Quoted in The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah”
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
“Like a dance, conflict escalation generally requires the participation of both parties.”
Brian Mistler American Gestalt therapist
George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden Are Dancing Together (2003)
Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979). 168.
Context: Creatures really have divergent and conflicting desires. Their distinct motives are not (usually) wishes for survival or for means-to-survival, but for various particular things to be done and obtained while surviving. And these can always conflict. Motivation is fundamentally plural. It must be so because, in evolution, all sorts of contingincies and needs arise, calling for all sorts of different responses. An obsessive creature, constantly dominated by one kind of motive, would not survive.
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 177