Patricia Garfield famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.
-- Patricia Garfield

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Dreamers who regard dreams as important and even vital to success in life will receive and remember helpful dreams.
-- Patricia Garfield

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We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.
-- Patricia Garfield

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Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.
-- Patricia Garfield

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There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.
-- Patricia Garfield

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Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute. As long as this appears to be lacking, what is present can be demolished only by fools or criminals.

Patricia Garfield famous quotes

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