Nathaniel Dean famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their deepest convictions, are blind to most truths.
-- Nathaniel Dean

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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
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.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
There would never be any room in her for anything else. No room for anything but the realization of what she had done.
The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

Nathaniel Dean famous quotes

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