"To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it."

-- Karl A. Menninger

#Mean Quotes #Instinct Quotes #Know Thyself Quotes

“Capitalismâ€™s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecologyâ€™s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.”
“We learn only to ask more questions.”

Source : Larry Niven (1984). “Ringworld Engineers”, Del Rey
“Most illness begins with a negative mind.”
“The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin
“Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.”
“By merely foreswearing violence and taking advantage of their unique position contiguous with the worldâ€™s most creative people, the Palestinians could be rich and happy.”
“At night the sky is pure astronomy.”
“Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.”

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