Quotes about person
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“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
Variant: It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.
Source: Just Listen
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 5.
Context: I resolved passionately to reach the spiritual causes of phenomena, and to dominate the material world which I detested by their means. I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
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Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]
“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”
“If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way”
Source: Someone Like You
“Providence looks after all the chumps of this world, and personally, I'm all for it.”
Source: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea
Source: Children of the Mind
“Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.”
“Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.”
Source: P.S. I Love You
Source: North of Beautiful
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
“He kissed me, and I pulled my personal psycho into bed with me.”
Source: Magic Slays
Source: An Object of Beauty
“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”
Source: Sugar Daddy
Source: Mine Till Midnight
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Misattributed
Variant: The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.
These two statements are very similar, widely quoted, and seem to paraphrase some ideas in the essay "Religion and Science" (see below), but neither of the two specific quotes above been properly sourced. Notable Einstein scholars such as John Stachel and Thomas J. McFarlane (author of Buddha and Einstein: The Parallel Sayings) know of this statement but have not found any source for it. Any information on any definite original sources for these is welcome.
This quote does not actually appear in Albert Einstein: The Human Side as is sometimes claimed.
Only two sources from before 1970 can be found on Google Books. The first is The Theosophist: Volume 86 which seems to cover the years 1964 http://books.google.com/books?id=7pLjAAAAMAAJ&q=1964#search_anchor and 1965 http://books.google.com/books?id=7pLjAAAAMAAJ&q=1965#search_anchor. The quote appears attributed to Einstein on p. 255 http://books.google.com/books?id=7pLjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22natural+and+spiritual%22#search_anchor, with the wording given as "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description." An identical quote appears on p. 284 http://books.google.com/books?id=YpsfAQAAIAAJ&q=%22dogmas+and+theology%22#search_anchor of The Maha Bodhi: Volume 72 published by the Maha Bodhi Society of India, which seems to contain issues from throughout 1964 http://books.google.com/books?id=YpsfAQAAIAAJ&q=%22volume+72%22#search_anchor.
A number of phrases in the quote are similar to phrases in Einstein's "Religion and Science". Comparing the version of the quote in The Theosophist to the version of "Religion and Science" published in 1930, "a cosmic religion" in the first resembles "the cosmic religious sense" in the second; "transcend a personal God" resembles "does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God"; "covering both the natural and the spiritual" resembles "revealed in nature and in the world of thought"; "the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity" resembles "experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance"; and "Buddhism answers this description" resembles "The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism". These phrases appear in the same order in both cases, and the ones from "Religion and Science" are all from a single paragraph of the essay.
Context: Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.
“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Source: House of Leaves
Source: Reviewing Blueprints: Solving the Mystery of Evolution (1989) by Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johanson
Source: Last sentence expanded upon in "Ignorance is No Crime" (2001) (see below)
Context: So to the book's provocation, the statement that nearly half the people in the United States don't believe in evolution. Not just any people but powerful people, people who should know better, people with too much influence over educational policy. We are not talking about Darwin's particular theory of natural selection. It is still (just) possible for a biologist to doubt its importance, and a few claim to. No, we are here talking about the fact of evolution itself, a fact that is proved utterly beyond reasonable doubt. To claim equal time for creation science in biology classes is about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim equal time in sex education classes for the stork theory. It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
If that gives you offence, I'm sorry. You are probably not stupid, insane or wicked; and ignorance is no crime in a country with strong local traditions of interference in the freedom of biology educators to teach the central theorem of their subject.
“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes.”
Source: Saga, Vol. 1
“She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.”
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Time of Your Life
The Analects, The Great Learning
Context: The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
Source: Shadow Game
Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“It's so easy to make a person who hasn't got anything seem wrong.”
Source: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
“If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.”
Source: Testimony
Source: Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders
“You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”
Source: The Dark Side of Nowhere
“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.”
Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
