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“Does female orgasm have an evolutionary function? Ironically, scientists have yet to come to a satisfying conclusion about this matter.”

Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 58

“We are grateful to God for His large grace and mercy to the people. At the same time we ask all people of good will to pray for the successful building of the church, because we know very well that when the Lord does not build a house, builders work in vain.”

Vasyl Ivasyuk (1960)

Source: In Kirovohrad foundation stone of church was blessed http://news.ugcc.ua/en/news/in_kirovohrad_foundation_stone_of_church_was_blessed_57087.html (30 November 2009)

God, People, Time, Success

“Breathing is really a very complex activity. It does not only consist of taking in air, absorbing oxygen from it and letting it out again as carbonic acid gas! The breathing has a tremendous effect on the character, determining the mood, courage, strength of purpose, health and inspiration from day to day.”

Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) British artist

Source: Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950), Chapter XV The Essential Science of Breathing

Health, Mood, Courage

“If Great Britain lost her Empire and India and her share in world trade and her sea power, she would be like a vast whale stranded in one your Scottish bays, which swam in upon the tide and then was left to choke and rot upon the sands. We should be like a great shop emporium in a district from which prosperity has for ever departed. We least of all peoples and races can afford to fail. Failure to us does not mean merely that we shall not improve. It means that we shall be ruined and frozen out.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Source: Rectorial address ("The present decline of Parliamentary government in Great Britain") to Edinburgh University (5 March 1931), quoted in The Times (6 March 1931), p. 19

People, World, Failure, Sea

“It’s absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to sit in confinement with people of exactly the same age and social class. That system effectively cuts you off from the immense diversity of life and the synergy of variety; indeed it cuts you off from your own past and future, sealing you in a continuous present much the same way television does.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 24

Life, People, Age, Way

“Experiencing oneself as Life does is to enjoy oneself [jouir de soi]. Enjoyment does not presuppose any differences similar to those in which the world is born: it is homogeneous phenomenological material, a monolithic affective body whose phenomenality is affectivity as such. The self-revelation of Life is not a formal structure that can be conceived on the basis of “outside oneself” and in terms of its own structures, since these are bypassed, overcome while being maintained in this very bypassing. The self-revelation of life is its enjoyment, the primordial self-enjoyment that defines the essence of Living and thus of God himself. According to Christianity, God is Love. Love is nothing other than the self-revelation of God understood as in its pathetic phenomenological essence, specifically, the self-enjoyment of absolute Life. This is why the Love of God is the infinite love in which he eternally loves himself, and the revelation of God is none other than this Love.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Books on Religion and Christianity, I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)
Source: Michel Henry, I am the Truth. Toward a Philosophy of Christianity, translated by Susan Emanuel, Stanford University Press, 2003, p. 30

Love, Life, God, World

“Although it is not thought or some other form of knowledge, although it is not the truth of the world, that gives access to the Revelation of God, at least a single possibility persist, already mentioned as a simple matter of fact and now rendered unimpeachable. Access to God, understood as his self-revelation according to a phenomenality proper to Him, is not susceptible of being produced except where this self-revelation is produced and in the way self-revelation does so. There where God originally arrives in himself, in the phenomenalization of phenomenality that is his own and is thus like the self-phenomenalization of this phenomenality proper – there alone is access to God. It is not that thought is lacking and so we cannot accede to the Revelation of God. Quite the contrary, it is only when thought defaults, because the truth of the world is absent, that what is at stake be achieved: the self-revelation of God – the self-phenomenalization of pure phenomenality against the background of a phenomenality that is not that of the world.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

God, Truth, World, Way

“This is the miracle of abstract painting: it constructs the unlimited monumentality of a work that no longer has a foothold in the visible world, that ignores its rules and does not seek anything from it, neither aid nor sanction, and that emerges with the pure force and infinite certainty of life. Withdrawn from the weight of things and from the inertial systems in which things are held and have their limited possibilities circumscribed, the work of art proceeds from the imagination. To imagine is to posit something other than what is and what is there right in front of us -- something other than the world. To imagine is to posit life.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Books on Culture and Barbarism, Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky (1988)
Source: Michel Henry, Seeing the invisible: On Kandinsky, Continuum, 2009, p. 107

Life, World, Art, Imagination

“Forgiveness of the sin of abortion does not mean the Church condones abortion, neither does it minimise its grave effects.”

Smaragde Mbonyintege (1947) Rwandan Catholic bishop (born 1947)

Source: Catholic Church maintains its stand on abortion, says Bishop Mbonyintege https://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/192233 (5 September 2015)

Forgiveness

“Father has his arm around Tereze.
She squints. My thumb
is in my mouth: my fifth autumn.
Near the copper beech
the spaniel dozes in shadows.
Not one of us does not avert his eyes.”

Louise Glück (1943–2023) American poet

Source: "Still Life", The House on Marshland (1975)

Autumn

“Half dead’s a lot worse than dead, when you know you’re gonna die in another three, six days no matter what anyone else does.”

Samuel R. Delany book They Fly at Çiron

Source: They Fly at Çiron (1993), Chapter 6 (p. 166)

Dead

“When it rains, guess it pours—yes, it does
Wish there wasn't any pain, but I can't pretend there ain't
I ain't placin' any blame
I ain't pointin' fingers, Heaven knows I've never been a saint”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Going Through Changes"
2010s, Recovery (2010)

Pain

“The clouds, never expect it,
When it rains
But the sea changes color,
But the sea does not change,
, And so with the slow graceful
Flow of age, I went forth with an,
Age old desire to please,
On the edge of seventeen.”

Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac

Edge of Seventeen
Bella Donna (album) (1981)

Age, Color, Change, Sea

“Does the clown ever cry?
Yes, he does. Alone, but!”

Kazeronnie Mak

Cry

“When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No … don’t blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? But it is!”

Louis De Bernières (1954) English novelist

Source: Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Love, Truth, Imagination, Lying

“Impermanence becomes vivid in the present moment; so do compassion and wonder and courage. And so does fear.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)

Fear, Courage

“On the pastoral level, the Cardinal should help the Holy Father as he does as a member of the universal Church.”

Francesco Monterisi (1934) Italian cardinal

Cardinal Monterisi in the footsteps of Saint Paul http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2011/02/18/february_18,_2011/en1-462779 (12 February 2011)

Universe, Help

“Democrat or Republican. It does not matter. War is the raison d’état of the state. Extravagant military expenditures are justified in the name of “national security.””

Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist

The nearly $40 billion allocated for Ukraine, most of it going into the hands of weapons manufacturers such as Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, is only the beginning. Military strategists, who say the war will be long and protracted, are talking about infusions of $4 or $5 billion in military aid a month to Ukraine. We face existential threats. But these do not count. The proposed budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in fiscal year 2023 is $10.675 billion. The proposed budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is $11.881 billion. Ukraine alone gets more than double that amount. Pandemics and the climate emergency are afterthoughts. War is all that matters. This is a recipe for collective suicide.
2022, "No Way Out but War" (May 23, 2022)

War

“Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate.”

Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) American writer

Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics (1948)

Love, Hate, War

“I now knew what it was, but just because you can name a thing does not mean you understand it.”

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 145

Understanding

“Courage, combined with stupidity, does not make successful soldiers.”

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 133

Stupidity, Courage, Success

“The argument for Christian practices becomes all the stronger, when also nature, which is the first rule of all, supports them. Well, she is the first who lays it down that a crown does not become the head.”

Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian

Source: The Chaplet https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm, Chapter V

Support, Nature

“Yoga does not consist in sitting cross-legged for six hours or stopping the beatings of the heart or getting oneself buried underneath the ground for a week or a month. These are all physical feats only.”

Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher

What Is Actual Yoga
Autobiography of Swami Sivananda (1958)

Heart

“Stillness does not come and go. It is we who come and go. Stillness abides, like a vast evenness, limpid and pure. It is a transcendent realm of infinite clarity.”

Silouan Oner (1970) Antiochian Orthodox metropolitan

No. 60, in "A Century on the Wisdom of Stillness"

“Power’s tendency to corrupt is a function of the work it does in liberating man’s worse characteristics.”

A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 25, “Power” (p. 105)

“The most talented man, as he has been told many times, does a hundred foolish things in his life.”

Daniel Salamanca (1863–1935) President of Bolivia (1863-1935)

Life, Time

“[A Hindu] may be a theist, pantheist, atheist, communist and believe whatever he likes, but what makes him into a Hindu are the ritual practices he performs and the rules to which he adheres, in short, what he does.”

Frits Staal (1930–2012) Dutch indologist

Ritual and Mantras: Rules without Meaning, quoted in An Introduction to Hinduism https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Introduction_to_Hinduism/KpIWhKnYmF0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA12 by Gavin D. Flood, p. 12.

“My real friend was my first wife. I could share everything with her without exception. That's how it came together that she became both a wife and a friend. A friend in the full sense of the word happens once in a lifetime or does not happen at all.”

Dmitry Yazov (1924–2020) Soviet minister of defence

"Дмитрий Язов рассказал "РГ" о жизни маршала на пенсии" https://rg.ru/2013/12/05/marshal.html (4 December 2013)

Sense

“Peace does not impose itself automatically, by itself, but is the result of the will of men.”

Sergio Mattarella (1941) 12th President of Italy

Men, Peace

“What matters in politics above all, is not what one says, but what one does.”

Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) American writer

The Proclamation of London (1949)

“It is so depressing to watch, almost on a daily basis, the erasure of great men by know-nothing non-entities who can build nothing, create nothing, do nothing but destroy all that does not conform to the ever shifting pieties of present-tense virtue-signalling.”

Mark Steyn (1959) Canadian writer

"The Surrender of the Public Square" https://www.steynonline.com/8757/the-surrender-of-the-public-square, steynonline.com (13 August 2018)

Men

“Authoritarians always blame whole groups. That's what the Left does, they're sick and they're evil.”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

#671: April 13, 2022 https://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/671-april-13-2022(Knowledge Fight April 13th, 2022)

Evil

“[...] one must be cautious in assessing the political significance of the relative freedom from repression — at least for the privileged — in the United States. Exactly what does it mean, concretely?”

Noam Chomsky book Language and Responsibility

Quotes 1950s–1980s, 1970s, Language and Responsibility, Pantheon, 1977

Freedom

“While moral rectitude cannot be substituted by professional competencies, it does promote and cultivate them.”

Agostino Vallini (1940) Catholic cardinal

Pope’s vicar calls on teachers to educate in hope and be witnesses of Christ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/14872/popes-vicar-calls-on-teachers-to-educate-in-hope-and-be-witnesses-of-christ (23 January 2009)

“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.”

Alex Webb (photographer) (1952) American photojournalist

Source: Bubacz, Kate (June 6, 2017). "6 Photographers On What It Means To Be Close Enough" https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katebubacz/get-closer. BuzzFeed.

Secret, Confidence, Waiting

“The main thing for Ukraine today is that the whole other world hears and sees us, and it is important that our war does not become "habitual," so that our victims do not become statistics. That's why I communicate with people through foreign media. Don't get used to our grief!”

Olena Zelenska (1978) Ukrainian architect and screenwriter

The number one target is all of us (2022)

War, People, World, Communication

“See, everybody looks at the world from his own point of view. I call it the ground state of the resting mind. And your brain does the same thing, left alone it returns to and thinks about what it’s really interested in.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 17 (p. 227)

World, Thinking

“Are you getting bored doing interviews? That's work. It's the most responsible, representative and solemn work there is — like sport. Anyone who does not aim for the Olympic Games or championships should not be in the sports industry.”

Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946–2022) Russian politician and political activist

"Zhirinovsky: 'Europe, you shall tremble!'" in DW News https://www.dw.com/en/zhirinovsky-europe-you-shall-tremble/a-42923191 (11 March 2018)

Game, Sport

“Imagine what it’s like to look at your child who needs insulin and have no idea how you’re going to pay for it. What it does to your dignity, your ability to look your child in the eye, to be the parent you expect to be.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Remarks of President Joe Biden – State of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery (March 1, 2022) https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/01/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-delivered/ <br class="br">2022, March 2022, State of the Union Address

Imagination, Idea, Parent

“Here in Boston, in Massachusetts, we will do what we do best: We will fight back, fiercely—for our freedoms and for each other. This moment does not belong to the far right. It belongs to us, like our bodies. And we decide what to do with it.”

Michelle Wu (1985) City Councilor in Boston, Massachusetts

24 June 2022 "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says overturning Roe v. Wade will 'ruin lives'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrmQGDRoWCY

Freedom, Fight

“Mere abstention from a life of evil does not constitute a life devoted to good works.”

Lin Carter book Kesrick

Source: Kesrick (1982), Chapter 3, “The Monster-Guarded Gate” (p. 25)

Life, Evil

“How does it come about that we are said to be sold to the middle class, capitalism and the Government? But already our enemies dare no longer continue this accusation, so false and ridiculous it is.”

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…

“Fascismo’s Interests for the Working Classes” speech delivered at Prato della Marfisia in Ferrara (4 April 1921) p. 76
1920s, Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)

Falseness

“Our army does not attack any civilian infrastructure site. We have every capability of knowing what is situated where,”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

"Humiliated Putin scrambles to save face as Sweden and Finland join NATO: Russian leader says countries 'can join whatever they like' - and attacks the bloc's 'imperialist ambitions'" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10967023/Putin-insists-DOESNT-care-Finland-Sweden-join-NATO-denied-bombing-Ukrainian-mall.html, Daily Mail, 29 June 2022 <br class="br">2020s, On conducting a "special military operation" in Ukraine (24 February 2022)

“I think Christian comedy has gotten a bad rap in the past because it's very passive, and it's not honest. It's like knock-knock jokes type humor. What we're bringing to the table is another level of honesty, and maybe transparency that I think does make some people uncomfortable.”

John Crist (comedian) (1984) American comedian

[Paulson, Dave, John Crist: A Christian comedian who's gently poking fun at faith, https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/2019/04/11/john-crist-christian-comedian-nashville-comedy-festival-ryman-auditorium/3215394002/, 6 September 2019, The Tennessean, April 11, 2019, en]

People, Thinking, Past

“As long as people are still talking, there is a glimmer of hope. War does not bring any solutions, only destruction, suffering and lack of peace.”

Mieczysław Mokrzycki (1961) Polish bishop

Ukraine: Church continues to help refugees and pray for peace https://acninternational.org/ukraine-church-continues-to-help-refugees-and-pray-for-peace/ (24 February 2022)

War, People, Peace, Hope

“Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us?”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 25, p. 315.

Nature

“The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.”

Ernst Jünger book Eumeswil

Eumeswil (1977)

Law, Nature, Change

“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”

Ernst Jünger book The Glass Bees

The Glass Bees (1957)

Happiness, Freedom, Personality

“A line of reasoning does not lead but follows us to truth.”

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew (2020)

Truth

“By being so far educated beyond his capacity is he unable to learn within himself from nature? Divorced as he is from her, who and what can now be his? Does the so-called free man of democracy merely exploit his sovereignity?”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Education, Democracy, Nature, Learning

“You know that color does not matter to me. I want to know other things about a man. Is his word good? Does he meet his obligations? Does he do honest work? Is he brave? Will he stand up and be counted?”

Robert A. Heinlein book Farnham's Freehold

Source: Farnham's Freehold (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 115)

Color

“The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.”

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Kalam (2018)

World, Problem

“What created by a human mind, can be solved by another human mind. From this point of view does not exist and cannot exist unsolved problems in any area of science.”

Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999) Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)

Profile of Yuri Knorozov http://cemyk.org/pages/en/yuri-knorosov.php

Problem, Science

“The Women of Cumann na mBan

The struggle is a-fading
Drifting to history
Yet the importance of these women
Does not need persuading

In Belfast was Winnie Carney
Who worked for freedom’s gain
She was a trade unionist in Dublin
When Connolly was slain

Travelling the country
Was Bloxham from May-o
A magnificent orator
Her resignation was blow

We must mention Jen Wyse-Power
Once the president
She supported the Treaty
Which made everyone sour

It was the great Sorcha MacMahon
Moving to-and-from the Four Courts
Fundraising for dependants
And arranging the transports

Do not forget Maud Mitchell
The first Captain of the Midlands
The executive’s fine beauty
In Cork she gave commands

Of course, there was Maud Gonne
And Countess Markievicz
For many years great warriors
'Til on parliament they split

After many hours of conflict
Settles does the dust
Yet the ideals of these women
Carry on they must”

Unknown author

Women, Beauty, Travel, History

“I think that everything that is really good and beautiful, the inner, moral, spiritual and sublime beauty in men and their works, comes from God, and everything that is bad and evil in the works of men and in men is not from God, and God does not approve of it.
But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakable faith.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)

Love, Men, God, Faith

“Why does The Holocaust persist in haunting our conscience? Why does it dominate the introspection of philosophers and historians alike? By the numbers alone, the murders were not unprecedented. At that juncture of 20th Century history, Stalin and Lenin had already brutally murdered tens of millions. The Holocaust fascinates not because of its numbers, but because of the means employed. At no point in time had an entire society dedicated its full might to the perpetual elimination of those unwanted elements of the population. Every aspect of Hitler’s National Socialism was geared towards cleansing and improving the breeding stock of Germania. Hitler’s National Socialist government was focused on the breeding, education, and training of a “master race.” The social, cultural, legislative, and industrial mechanisms of Hitler’s National Socialism were designed to perpetually “select” its populace. The central planners of National Socialism would “select” those that would live, those that would die, and those that would be sterilized slave labor. National Socialism was intended to have the “total” control to decide who would be allowed to procreate, and as a result, those that would be allowed to contribute to Hitler’s ideal society.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: H.H. LAUGHLIN: American Scientist. American Progressive. Nazi Collaborator.

Education, History, Time, Training

“Currently, what is expected is that a person does not get emotionally aroused or dysregulated, is not emotionally phased or affected by anything someone else does or does not do, does not blame anyone for what they do or don’t do that causes emotional harm and especially does not defend themselves from emotional harm. What is glorified in society is emotional neutrality/numbness… Not having emotions.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Personality

“At the core, people are creators. They can conceptualize of what does not yet exist. And they can bring it into a physical manifestation.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

People

“Adapting does not mean resigning, but knowing how to act of intellect.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Adattarsi non significa rassegnarsi, ma saper agire d'intelletto.
Source: prevale.net

“Solidarity is not just an awareness of what it means to be together. It does not have to exist solely because of common goals or interests. Solidarity should be born as a form of appreciation.”

Titon Rahmawan

““Truth does not belong to cowards. The truth does not belong to the losers. The truth belongs only to those who dare to speak out against tyranny and injustice, whatever the consequences.””

Titon Rahmawan

Truth

“Opportunity does not come always and no forecast it brings to be careful. One should always be careful to avail it.”

ratikanta1968

“I spoke the other day to the art historian Vanni Scheiwiler who publishes in Milan. But Signor Scheiwiler is pessimistic; he says that under the influence of the new conformism the city, after all the cultural centre of Italy, has been undergoing a decline in intellectual vitality. Anyone who comes up with something that does not fit in with the line is promptly put down by being called a Fascist. The word Fascist is reported so often that one wonders whether it hasn’t lost all meaning! This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: “The fascism of tomorrow will never say ‘I am Facism’. It will say: ‘I am anti-Facism’.””

Ignazio Silone (1900–1978) Italian author and politician

Source: https://books.google.de/books?id=CPdKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT250 PT250 books.google <br class="br">Source: François Bondy: Italian Censorship (European Notebook). Encounter Band 47, No. 2 (1976) August, p. 51 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=iS0dAQAAMAAJ&q=silone; Reprint in: European Notebooks 1954-1985, Routledge, New York 2017,

Art

“We may easily criticize or revile the policies of those in power just because we feel that their policies are not in line with our principles. However, we should not build public opinion without considering why the policy was made, for whom and how the policy process was made. Does the policy fulfill the principles and sense of justice? We should be able to see the greater interest rather than only seeing from the side of personal gain, groups or a handful of people.”

Titon Rahmawan

People, Justice, Feeling, Sense

“A self-aware person, who knows his strengths and weaknesses, has more than enough confidence to achieve what he wants. Even so, he does not need recognition from others. When he reaches his goal, recognition will come naturally.”

Titon Rahmawan

Confidence, Nature, Personality

“When people expect that what they give will be commensurate with what they will get. They must remember one thing, that often life does not work that way. They must be prepared to be disappointed.”

Titon Rahmawan

Life, People, Disappointment, Way

“True love grows in a mutually happy relationship and not the fulfillment of one party's happiness alone. Love that does not work like that is not real love.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Happiness

“A system that does not provide space and opportunity to be evaluated, tested, checked, and criticized will only become authoritarian. It has a tendency to follow its own will and oppose the thoughts of others.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Happiness does not hide secrets. It is open for anyone to obtain and enjoy. It's just that not everyone knows how to get and enjoy it.”

Titon Rahmawan

Happiness, Secret

“The sincerity of love that is willing to sacrifice is the essence of noble love. Love that does not think of itself. Love that is willing to do anything for the happiness of the person it loves.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Happiness, Thinking, Personality

“Is it just me or does anyone else think, that the courage to speak up and express opinions should be accompanied by manners and etiquette?”

Titon Rahmawan

Courage, Thinking

“Love needs no explanation, of course. There's nothing to explain. About love or longing. The thoughts that accompany our feelings. It's been there for a long time. Ever since it first came to say hello and then declared itself.

It's not something strange, not easily understood. It's like the togetherness we share today. Sit and chat with friends. Enjoying time and joking. Playing old songs, from The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro and Elvis Presley.

We're not too old to go back to those days. Revisiting the stories of the past. Talking about paintings from Sudjojono or Affandi to Dede Eri Supria and Lucia Hartini. Arguing who is greater; Chairil, Sapardi or Sutardji?

We put aside the issues of political depravity and the news of leadership succession that is not what the public expects. Let time resolve everything. Better to talk about climate change, which is sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny. Or the heat that does not hesitate to burn your head until it reaches 37° while in other places heavy rains cause floods everywhere. We will never know, until the wind takes us back from the past.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, Feeling, Change, Time

“The woman who does not provoke any discussion has no interest in you.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La donna che non provoca alcuna discussione non ha alcun interesse per te.
Source: prevale.net

“Does everyone have a morality that does not contradict their own personality?”

Titon Rahmawan

Personality

“The inner compass is designed to lead you in the direction of what is in your best interests. But just because something is in your best interests does not mean that it will necessarily be pleasurable.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Pleasure

“A heart does well everywhere.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Un cuore fa bene ovunque.
Source: prevale.net

Heart

“Just because you think something is normal, does not mean it is healthy, does not mean it is right and does not mean it is good.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Thinking

“What is this nonsense? We're not here at the moment. At least, we don't expect to be. Trying to get out of what people think of themselves. All this futility. The earth we walk on is slowly burning.

Is that the kind of statement you want to write? You shout? Will it end up in vain? The rebellion of desire. There is no sanctity or half-truth.

All that nonsense is fake. The hatred that people cultivate from their own disbelief. A conflict of the soul, an inner struggle, or whatever you want to call it. Where will they go? After years and centuries of waiting. Will we find our way or will we forever be lost?

For too long we have slept in the illusion of this madness. This rage. Things we don't believe to be true. Everyone looking for their own truth. Ignorant and indifferent to each other.

Do we feel lucky with our ignorance? With all our naivety? Accepting everything without being able to fight back? Have we been blinded by pseudo-reality, which does not touch our very essence?

What kind of truth are we still debating? What authenticity are we still looking for? Those of you who feel poor, who are still confined by suffering. Arise, live, lift your own burdens! If you have not been able to lighten the burden of others.”

Titon Rahmawan

People, Truth, Way, Feeling

“Learn to love yourself a 100% by reconnecting back to Mother Nature. The reason why there is so much chaos going on is because we have disrespected our mother. What's happened now is that we are killing the one who is giving us life. We have to realize the greatness of nature. Bob Marley tried to warn you to see that in this concrete jungle, many of us are living in reverse. When you live in reverse L-I-V-E, it becomes evil…E-V-I-L. We have to see that just by letting go, it frees you…it does wonders.”

Ralph Smart

Love, Life, Nature, Learning

“The secret to solving a problem is to have the strength to find a solution. When the solution does not exist, you invent it.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il segreto per risolvere un problema è avere la forza di trovare una soluzione. Quando la soluzione non esiste, la inventi.
Source: prevale.net

Secret, Problem

“Love does not know any sexual gender or imperfection, it lives only on passion.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'amore non conosce alcun genere sessuale o imperfezione, vive solo di passione.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Passion

“The essential component of any true family does not depend on its members, but on the love that each of them feels living together.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La componente essenziale di ogni vera famiglia non dipende dai suoi membri, ma dall'amore che ciascuno di loro prova vivendo insieme.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Family, Feeling, Dependency

“Disappointment and hurt are feelings that don't go away easily. An apology alone often does not heal them.”

Titon Rahmawan

Disappointment, Feeling, Hurt

“There are many types of dwarfism, but the worst is the one who cannot respect others, because he does not know how to respect himself.”

Titon Rahmawan

“Only an ignorant person does not know the difference between criticism and humiliation. All attempts to demean, hurt, and put down with sarcasm, harsh words, curses, and mockery that deny manners and politeness. All actions that provoke anger, irritation and cause hurt feelings are not a form of criticism but humiliation.”

Titon Rahmawan

Feeling, Hurt, Personality, Anger

“Life communicates in a strange way: it does so through signals and codes. You think you already know them all, but you don't. Each person who enters your life teaches you a new word: affection, friendship, trust, competition, success, love, pleasure, respect, longing, loneliness, courage, betrayal, disappointment…. My favourite words have always been love, pleasure, respect and trust; the last one I learnt was courage.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vita comunica in modo strano: lo fa attraverso segnali e codici. Pensate di conoscerli già tutti, ma non è così. Ogni persona che entra nella vostra vita vi insegna una nuova parola: affetto, amicizia, fiducia, competizione, successo, amore, piacere, rispetto, desiderio, solitudine, coraggio, tradimento, delusione... . Le mie parole preferite sono sempre state amore, piacere, rispetto e fiducia; l'ultima che ho imparato è stata coraggio.
Source: prevale.net

Love, Life, Friendship, Pleasure

“The "how it went" does not depend on you, the "how it could go", instead, is all to be written.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il "come è andata" non dipende da te, il "come potrebbe andare", invece, è tutto da scrivere.
Source: prevale.net

Dependency

“Anyone perform unjust and harmful actions behind your back, does not deserve any consideration.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chiunque compia azioni ingiuste e dannose alle vostre spalle, non merita alcuna considerazione.
Source: prevale.net

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“Does literature change social reality? Perhaps not. But it reveals it, brings it into the conversation—which is no small thing. It puts it in tension with reality itself. It strips it of its masks. It takes away the official discourse, or at least makes it squirm.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

Literature, Reality, Change

“In any kind of relationship, anything that does not feeds the heart annihilates its value.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In qualsiasi tipo di relazione, tutto ciò che non alimenta il cuore annienta il suo valore.
Source: prevale.net

Heart

“A finish line is conquired by struggling. Life does not facilitate the road to any objective: it only reaches by sacrifice.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Un traguardo si conquista lottando. La vita non agevola la strada verso alcun obiettivo: si raggiunge solo con sacrificio.
Source: prevale.net

Life

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“Power does not need to impose itself when it manages to pay you for your silence: a punctual paycheck is enough to make obedience seem like common sense.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480AM. La Otra Historia. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Sense, Silence

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“The right does not deny the disappeared detainees: it manages them as silence. For them, they are not absent bodies but obstacles already overcome; and upon that well-ordered grave they build their idea of a country.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Idea, Silence, Country

“Wisdom lies in intellectual humility and the willingness to evolve, while presumptuous ignorance crystallises in the defence of a self-image that does not correspond to reality.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Source: prevale.net

Wisdom, Reality

“Learning to manage one's inner life does not mean repressing emotions, but preventing the mind from turning into an enemy.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Imparare a gestire la propria vita interiore non significa reprimere emozioni, ma impedire alla mente di trasformarsi in un nemico.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Learning

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“School does not have to function like a business: its purpose is different.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Cuando la escuela dejó de pensar. By José Baroja. (2026b, mayo 25). Le Monde Diplomatique. https://www.lemondediplomatique.cl/cuando-la-escuela-dejo-de-pensar-por-jose-baroja.html

School, Business

“The true richness of existence does not lie in material goods, but in the depth and intensity of the emotions that one experiences.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La vera ricchezza dell'esistenza non risiede nei beni materiali, ma nella profondità e nell'intensità delle emozioni che si provano.
Source: prevale.net

Lie

“In life it's fundamental to find a special person, above all to find someone that who is always consistent with what he says, what he writes, what he does, what he thinks and what he feels.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nella vita è fondamentale trovare una persona speciale, soprattutto trovare qualcuno che sia sempre coerente con ciò che dice, ciò che scrive, ciò che fa, ciò che pensa e ciò che prova.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Feeling, Thinking, Personality

“In health, relationships, in talent or passions, be present. Time does not wait, and everything that is neglected, is irretrievably lost.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nella salute, nelle relazioni, nel talento o nelle passioni, sii presente. Il tempo non aspetta, e tutto ciò che viene trascurato, è irrimediabilmente perso.
Source: prevale.net

Health, Passion, Time, Waiting

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