
“A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 57.
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
“A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 57.
“A person knows what he knows. An animal knows, but doesn't know what he knows”
Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass, 1986
Context: A person knows what he knows. An animal knows, but doesn't know what he knows. In Yoga, "I" consciousness is called asmita klesha. It is classified as an affliction and a hindrance to attaining higher consciousness. There is always a chance for a person to break out of the cycle, but there is no such chance for an animal unless it incarnates as a human and develops "I" consciousness. (p.36-7)
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
Source: The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)
Source: Fire without Fuel - The Aphorisms of Baba Hari Dass (1986), Ch.III: Mind - Its Functions and Its Fantasies