Graham Harvey famous quotes

Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is always loved in relationship with others. Animism is lived out in various ways that are all about learning to act respectfully (carefully and constructively) toward and among other persons.
-- Graham Harvey

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Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human.
-- Graham Harvey

#People #World #Humans

Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.
-- Graham Harvey

#Issues #Addresses #Way

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism is one of the many vitally present and contemporary other-than-modern ways of being human.
-- Graham Harvey

#Doe #Way #Being Human

Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.
-- Graham Harvey

#Numbers #Labels #Use

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.