“The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
“The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one’s thoughts to cease to be aware of life.”
trans. Hollingdale (1983), “Schopenhauer as educator,” p. 154
Untimely Meditations (1876)
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Haile Selassie (1892–1975) Emperor of Ethiopia
V. E. Day proclamation (8 May 1945) http://www.jah-rastafari.com/selassie-words/show-jah-word.asp?word_id=declar_ve. <br class="br">Context: May it be taken as Divine significance, that, as We mark the passing of the Nazi Reich, in America at San Francisco, delegates from all United Nations, among whose number Ethiopia stands, are now met together for their long-planned conference to lay foundations for an international pact to banish war and to maintain World Peace. Our Churches pray for the successful triumph of this conference. Without success in this, the Victory, We celebrate today, the suffering that We have all endured will be of no avail.<br>To win the War, to overcome the enemy upon the fields cannot alone ensure the Victory in Peace. The cause of War must be removed. Each Nation's rights must be secure from violation. Above all, from the human mind must be erased all thoughts of War as a solution. Then and then only will War cease.
“The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Radio appeal for peace, Oslo, Norway (30 March 1958)
Marcel Proust book In Search of Lost Time
Aussi, les demeures disposées des deux côtés du chenal faisaient penser à des sites de la nature, mais d'une nature qui aurait créé ses œvres avec une imagination humaine.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. III: Venise
“All human thought proceeds through words, so if words are askew, thought cannot proceed aright.”
Huston Smith book The World's Religions
On Confucian values.
The World's Religions (1991)
Context: All human thought proceeds through words, so if words are askew, thought cannot proceed aright. When Confucius says that nothing is more important than that a father be a father, that a ruler be a ruler, he is saying that we must know what we mean when we use those words. But equally important, the words must mean the right things. Rectification of Names is the call for a normative semantics--the creation of a language in which key nouns carry the meanings they should carry if life is to be well ordered.
“Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.”
Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily
Source: The Golden Lily
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Introduction
Context: My object in adopting this arrangement is that the truths should be at one time apparent and at another time concealed. Thus we shall not be in opposition to the Divine Will (from which it is wrong to deviate) which has withheld from the multitude the truths required for the knowledge of God, according to the words, "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him." (Psalm 25:14)
A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), “Introduction” (p. xiii)