Weston La Barre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs.
-- Weston La Barre

#Mind #Ants #Mouths
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
-- Weston La Barre

#Intellectual #Tyranny #Worst
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.
-- Weston La Barre

#Men #Stories #Quests
Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
-- Weston La Barre

#Men #Safe #Language

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
And unlike the rest of you, he hasnâ€™t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he wonâ€™t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
I love a sandwich that you can barely fit in your mouth because there's so much stuff on it. The bread should not be the main thing on a sandwich.
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

Weston La Barre famous quotes

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