Gene Youngblood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

  • He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

  • The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

  • We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  • We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

  • There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

  • We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.

  • There are many levels of truth.

  • You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.

  • I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.